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...Anthony Rossi, 72, does not like to talk about his wealth because "you get all kinds of letters from people wanting money." His stock in Tropicana Products, Inc. of Bradenton, Fla., rose $59 million, to $128 million. Rossi, who still speaks in the accents of the Sicily that he left 51 years ago, founded the company in 1946 after a varied career as cab driver, bricklayer, tomato farmer and restaurateur, and he owns 24% of Tropicana's shares. He was one of the first to discover the North's thirst for chilled orange juice shipped from Florida...
ANTHONY T. ROSSI, 71, Bradenton, Fla., chairman and president of Tropicana Products Inc. Gifts: Nixon...
...Memphis. Orphaned soon after birth, he was raised by his grandparents. "Bubba," as he was called in those days, started singing in church choir lofts when he was five. Moving to Memphis a few years later, he began scrounging for work in black clubs, notably Curry's Tropicana and the Tiki Club. He did one-nighters at moonshine joints in towns like Greasy Corner, Ark., sometimes with his own group, Sir Isaac and the Doo-Dads. He spent one night sleeping on a crap table, one whole summer living in a junked...
...sale calculated to bring nervous heartburn to France's gastronomic nationalists. Below posters of cowboys and astronauts, shoppers at the Inno department store in Paris' chic Passy district snatched up U.S. imports: Bachman's Hanky Panky cocktail corn-puffs, Uncle Ben's rice, Florigold grapefruit, Tropicana orange juice...
...Rationing and shortages have worsened to the point where an automobile tire now goes for $130 on the black market, the weekly coffee ration is down to 1½ oz. per person, and the monthly butter ration is ⅛ lb. per person. At Havana's Tropicana nightclub, the chorus is still leggy and kicking, but the food is bad and few Cubans can even afford the tips. A Coca-Cola? Sure, says the obliging bartender at the Habana Libre Hotel. The bottle is certainly a Coke bottle-but the orange-colored stuff inside resembles battery acid...