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Ford Trucks & Flour. A bulking bear of a man, 66-year-old "Dutti" Duttweiler entered the business world 50 years ago as an apprentice in the Zurich wholesale grocery firm of Pfister and Sigg. Thirteen years later the company became Pfister & Duttweiler. But Dutti's main career of cutting prices-and conventional corners -began in 1925. Just back from several years as a coffee-and sugar-plantation owner in Brazil, Duttweiler was shocked to discover that a planter netted less for his efforts in raising coffee than the grocer who merely handed it over the counter. To remedy that...
...decided he had little use for great wealth or good living. So he gave away his Migros stores to his family of 120,000 registered customers, one share apiece, turning the whole business into a cooperative. For himself, he kept $250,000. He also turned his estate outside Zurich into an amusement park, moved into a four-room house where he and his wife live without servants, and from which he drives to work in a mouse-sized Fiat two-seater. Duttweiler stayed on as president of the Migros cooperative at $9,000 a year, but three years ago gave...
...provide cheap vacation tours. His Hotel Plan, which offered eight-day, all-expense holidays for as little as $45, caught on quickly, bailed the hotels out, and last year grossed $6,000,000. In 1951 the Migros cooperative organized "Minitax," which runs a fleet of small blue taxis in Zurich, Lucerne, Lausanne and Geneva, charges fares 30% lower than usual rates. Last summer Migros bought the Turissia sewing-machine factory, cut prices about 13% and has since doubled output. Migros also provides evening schools for adults, runs a book club with 37,000 members, distributes long-playing records at discounts...
Prime Minister Menzies tried to calm the public outcry over her departure by announcing that Mme. Petrov made no appeal for sanctuary to Australian officials at the airport. Besides, said he, if she wanted to stay, she would get another chance when the plane (bound for Zurich) touched down at Darwin. Menzies was as good as his word. At Darwin, Australian police boarded the plane, disarmed two Russian couriers who were traveling with her-they had .32 revolvers in shoulder holsters-and took Evdokia aside for a 45-minute private talk with a government official. This time...
...exhibit was assembled for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, mostly from the Kunsthaus in Zurich. After New York, the 64-picture Fuseli show will go to Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis and Baltimore. Most of the pictures have an extravagant, stagelike quality; men and women gesture and posture elaborately, as in The Witches Show Macbeth Banquo's Ghost. Macbeth, a heroic, anatomically detailed nude, holds an outstretched hand against the apparition conjured up by the three hags. There are also a few amorous scenes, such as The Kiss, in which the lovers' bodies are passionately contorted, suggestive...