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...group of Costa Rican businessmen who are building the country's first cement plant...
Fish Meal & Cement. The Japanese are less frightened than U.S. investors by Latin America's chronic political and economic upheavals. Having learned to live at home in the shadow of Red China, they look patronizingly on Castro's menacing. The unnerving gyrations of inflated pesos and cruzeiros also do not trouble them much, since they have been through the same thing in Southeast Asia. Most of all, the Japanese sense that Latin America, which has a more substantial middle class than any of the world's other developing areas, offers the best potential export market for Japan...
...audience's amusement in discovering how easily gulled the Babelites are by slick talk. The gab is dispensed by a down-and-out swami (played by Mr. Morey's collaborator, Robert Paul), who wanders into Babel, promptly sells the Babelites the world, and, to dispose of a bag of cement, persuades them to build a tower commemorating their purchase. Mr. Paul's loquacity dazzles and overwhelms them; the only person he doesn't fool is his Woman (Tammy Miller), briefly Babel's Grabel, who knows (and shows) that only flesh is real--not words...
...wealth is prodigious. He controls 15 companies-ranging from a cement combine to a paper and pulp plant-whose annual sales exceed $100 million, and his personal fortune is estimated to be at least $25 million. But Venezuela's courtly Eugenio Mendoza, 56, is more than his country's leading industrialist; he is also its leading philanthropist. Says he: "We businessmen always talk about the need to make dividends for our shareholders, but we must also create a dividend for the community...
Machinery & Construction Missouri Portland Cement 500 35 17,500 Nutone...