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...Purree. A full-length, somewhat overanimated cattoon about a pretty French pussy named Mewsette who falls in with a sinister allee cat but is rescued by a hair-trigger mouser...
...long stereotyped as the blustering loudmouth who always loses the girl; of cancer; in Encino, Calif. Most memorable roles: the boorish Joe the Twirler in 1942's screen version of Thurber's The Male Animal, and Big Daddy's grasping son, Gooper, in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
...CAT also has a paw in Mideast Airlines, in Beirut's St. Georges and Phoenicia hotels, and in a dozen trading companies that sell everything from Land Rovers to soft drinks. In just a decade, CAT's yearly gross has soared from $5 million to $60 million and its profits from almost nothing to $1.5 million a year...
After M.I.T., Bustani settled in Palestine, where he set up a contracting firm that specialized in installing bathrooms. His first big expansion came during World War II, when CAT became a major builder of British military installations in the Middle East. Even its exodus from Palestine after the establishment of Israel did not slow CAT down. By insisting on high standards and by patiently training local labor, Bustani proved that Arabs could do as good a construction job as anyone else. During the great postwar rush to expand Mideastern oil output, CAT began taking contracts away from Western companies, eventually...
...Today, CAT's 17,000 employees operate in 19 Arab, African and Asian countries. Apart from its reputation as a topflight builder, CAT's chief asset is Bustani's keen awareness of the touchy sensitivities of underdeveloped nations. Whenever he enters a new country, he insists on setting up a local subsidiary, encourages local investors to buy stock, and makes it clear that he intends the company to be locally run. Says he: "When we went into Pakistan seven years ago, we sent more than 100 people there from Beirut. Now we have only three Beirut staffers...