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...free-enterprising West Germany. While it is still highly nationalized, West Germany is getting rid of state-owned industry as quickly as possible. Under Erhard's orders, the Ministry for Federal Property, which oversees nationalized companies, is getting ready to sell off the state-owned Vereinigte Elektrizitäts und Bergwerks (VEBA), a coal, chemicals and electric power giant with annual sales of $875 million...
...Sophia Loren than meets the eye, and Director Vittorio De Sica is the man who sees it. In Gold of Naples he showed the world that Sophia is socko as a liedown comic. In Two Women he gave the girl an accelerated course of Duse and don'ts that revealed enough talent for tragedy to win her a 1961 Oscar. And in this picture, a hairily hilarious but fundamentally innocent little comedy, De Sica displays Sophia as a warm and earthy and even rather subtle comedienne...
...tiny Buctouche, N.B. (pop. 1,000), K. C. Irving early demonstrated the Midas touch. At five he sold the produce of his backyard garden (2? per cucumber); at ten he marketed the foil saved up from tea packages (4? per lb.). As a young man he sold Model Ts, and Fords led him logically to gas pumps. He started Irving Oil by installing a 10,000-gal. gasoline tank in his home town. From there, oil guided him into bus lines, tankers and refining...
...faith, Georgiev explained, "that I felt theoretically unstable." So unstable, said the prosecutor, that the defendant hardly had time to unpack his bags before he was in touch with a chap from the CIA. There followed a walk in Central Park, and instructions on the dos and don'ts of espionage. There was a spooky man named Anderson, whose name was really something else. Geogiev was supposed to have met him time and again at addresses in Manhattan that, according to the current city directory, do not exist. The CIA, he said, supplied him with...
Died. George Malvin Holley, 85, auto pioneer who in 1902 was asked by Henry Ford to design a fuel system, produced an "iron pot" carburetor to stoke the engines of 15 million model Ts (as well as Buicks, Pierce-Arrows, Winstons), went on in 1935 to develop the fuel system for the model T of aviation, the Douglas DC-3, and built his Holley Carburetor Co. to current sales of more than $50 million annually; after a long illness; in Detroit...