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...illicit opium crop-a full two-thirds of the world's output. A major participant in that war fell last week when Thai agents, advised by U.S. narcotics agents, captured Lo Hsing-han, long suspected of being Southeast Asia's largest and most powerful heroin tycoon. In a rare display of cooperation, Burmese armed forces, which at one time winked at Lo's operations, attacked Lo and men from his private army, forcing them across the border into Thailand and into the hands of the Thai Special Narcotics Organization...
...real test, of course, is whether a rebuilt Chicago can lure suburbanites back into town. Real Estate Tycoon James C. Downs Jr., head of the Central Area Committee, is optimistic: "We are shifting to an adult urban society. The birth rate is down, and people are not going to find it very attractive any more to make the commute from the suburbs every day. We've also passed the threshold in the integration battle." Mayor Daley clearly agrees. At the official release of the plan, he proudly called it "one of the great acts in the renaissance...
...from a friendly industrialist in connection with the purchase; that Nixon bought the property and later sold an interest in part of it to a still unnamed investment company; and that he ultimately made a good deal for himself. The industrialist-lender was Robert Abplanalp, the aerosol spray-valve tycoon. Still another of Nixon's helpful millionaire friends, C. Arnholt Smith, gained unwonted attention last week. He was in deep trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Internal Revenue Service (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
Rosi and Volonti give a persuasive portrayal of the style and manner of a furiously single-minded international businessman. Chewing out the sloppy employees of one of his motels, threatening vengeance on an American tycoon who patronizes him at a business lunch, or doing a full-scale snow job on a dubious journalist, Mattei was obviously an archetypal figure of our time. If The Mattei Affair is not quite as good in design and execution as it might have been, it is nevertheless an interesting and honorable attempt to sketch impressionistically the sort of complex personality the movies too often...
...plot proves a convenient vehicle for an assault on the impressionable eye and idle imagination. Cesar (Yves Montand) is a self-made tycoon, a blustery tough guy with a big heart full of histrionic whimsy, whose larger than life personality subsumes John Wayne and Buster Keaton under a single brow. Romy Schneider, rescued from the anonymity of a screen beauty turned tiresome, plays Cesar's lover Rosalie. She spends a good deal of her time casting long, soft, knowing looks at everyone, liberally displaying her carefully assembled sumptuousness...