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...collector and rebuilder of limp companies, California Industrialist Norton Simon owns an unrivaled record of success. From the tomato-paste base of his Hunt Foods, he has strung together an empire of two dozen corporations from publishing (McCall Corp.) to soft drinks (Canada Dry) to containers (Knox Glass). Almost every company that Simon has bought into has prospered and he has hung on to all of his major acquisitions...
...better life, thousands of peasants pack up every month and head for the big cities, where they find only deeper poverty and despair. In the Northeast's bustling port of Recife, 40% of the city's 1,000,000 people live in squalid, malodorous mocambos (shanties) strung out along the city's Ca-piberibe River. There is no fresh water, sanitation or electric light, and crime and disease are as oppressive as the millions of horseflies that swarm everywhere. In Rio, more than 600,000 people-15% of the city's population-live in the festering...
...Theodore Marton until one evening when he was playing with his son's stand-mounted toy dog made of beads. When the bottom of the stand was pressed up, the string threaded through the beads relaxed and the dog collapsed; when it was released, the strung-together dog was pulled into shape again. Why not use the same simple principle in a tether? So Marton built a new space line of interlocking aluminum balls and collars, all strung on a central cable. When the cable is loose, the tether is completely flexible, bending at each ball joint. But when...
...fight the remaining oil at sea, six Royal Navy ships and a small armada of civilian tugs and trawlers scattered thousands of gallons of oil-dispersing detergent. Along the beaches, British troops and civilians bulldozed oily areas, scattered more detergent and strung out floating antisubmarine "booms" to corral the surface scum...
Critic Goldberg may have a point. Africa Addio is a lengthy rape scene in which the predators are the continent's white and black citizens and the victim is Africa itself. Film Makers Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi (Mondo Cane) have assembled a grand guignol of atrocity scenes, strung together with a booming narration and a melodramatic score. Among them: the wanton slaughter of herds of hippopotamuses, zebras, elephants and other wildlife; the execution by a black and white firing squad of black Congolese rebels; mound of 54 amputated hands, the ghastly souvenir of Bahutu reprisals against their Watutsi...