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After last week's Monza, Ascari would ordinarily be ready for a full fall and winter season, including the Mexican road race this November. But so far, he has no plans. A month ago, Builder Ferrari announced that he is giving up racing cars, and Ascari is under contract to race for no one else. Most Italians took the news with a grain of salt. They don't think Enzo Ferrari will really give up his beloved racers, and they can't believe that anything will keep Alberto Ascari off the tracks for long...
...behind Potomac Parkway Plaza is George Preston Marshall, laundryman and owner of the Washington Redskins football team. For years he has thought that the land should be developed, and last year he persuaded Builder John W. Harris, who put up Washington's Statler Hotel, to form a syndicate to take an option on the land. Though the financing of the development is not completed and only the hotel and one office building (to cost a combined $30 million), and the plaza and garage have reached the blueprint stage, construction is expected to begin within six months...
...Southampton one day last week sailed a cargo of six knocked-down British tractors, bound for India. Their builder, David Brown, 50, Britain's third biggest maker of tractors (after Harry Ferguson and Ford), had stolen a march on competitors. Instead of trying to hurdle India's import barriers on foreign goods, he had signed a deal with Bombay's locally owned Mahindra-Mahindra plant to assemble and sell his machines. After the tractors, Brown dispatched a team of instructor technicians to set up a tractor school in India. Before long, he hopes to have Mahindra-Mahindra...
...sold to St. Louis Shipbuilding and Steel Co.'s new subsidiary, Federal Waterways Corp. of Delaware, for about $9,000,000. St. Louis Shipbuilding is owned by Herman T. Pott, 58, who has never before run a river freight system, though he is the largest U.S. builder of towboats and a leading builder of barges. (In the last 10 years he has supplied 20% of I.W.C.'s new vessels...
...Columbus' $10 million, 40-acre Town & Country center, Builder Don Casto entertains with strolling singers, trapeze artists and high divers. At Boston's Shoppers' World, customers are offered free dog and fashion shows, square dances twice a week, band concerts, fireworks...