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Gone were the dark glasses, slouch hat and sullen manner. In sunny Portofino, a smiling, bareheaded Greta Garbo breezed ashore from Movie Producer Sam Spiegel's yacht Malahne, sent a crowd into camera-clicking ecstasies with a big "Hello," joined her shipmate for a lighthearted shopping spree and dinner at the Restaurant Pitosforo. Burbled the proprietor: "It was the Garbo that for many years I've dreamed of seeing. She appeared rejuvenated in spirit...
Reduced Panic. Many of the new giants have also gone public, and the two largest are on the Big Board. They have replaced part-time accountants with cost-conscious controllers, lean to computers and automated distribution warehouses in place of production charts and pushcarts. On a shopping spree of their own, they are buying up smaller companies, expanding into Europe, financing on Wall Street. After hearing their business for years compared to a crap game, they are finding themselves lionized by analysts because of their sustained earnings and growth. "After 40 years in the business," admits Majestic Specialties' President...
This is a fine year to be a farm-equipment maker. Good crops, good weather and a record cash farm income of $37.5 billion in 1962 have sent the farmer on a buying spree, to the benefit of the $2 billion farm-equipment industry. Deere's domestic sales, which reached $541.5 million last year, are already up 25% for 1963's first fiscal half, and are expected to top $600 million for the year; first half earnings are 59% higher than last year. Deere's 24 factories and 30,000 employees make some 300 different machines, plus...
...always got good marks at Wittenberg U., never dented the family convertible, was engaged to that sweet Ophelia girl next door, and then inexplicably got his name splashed all over the tabloids by his revolting behavior toward his mother and girl friend, not to mention that gory mass-murder spree. One can hear the neighbors saying, "Hamlet was always such a polite, quiet boy. I'll never understand why he did it." This uncomprehending performance reflects the fact that George Grizzard has not thought out his answer to the Hamlet Problem-why Hamlet waits so long to kill...
...Protest. Moore, 35, was a native of Binghamton, N.Y. He fought with the Marines on Guam during World War II, then embarked on an educational spree that took him to colleges in Southampton, Barcelona, Paris, Baltimore, and to Harpur College near Binghamton, where in 1952 he got a degree in social studies (B average). His pursuit of formal learning ended a year later when he was committed to Binghamton State Hospital as a schizophrenic. In a mental ward for 18 months, he wrote most of The Mind in Chains, later raised $3,500 to pay for its 1955 publication...