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...Various of her songs at one time or another have popped to the top of the hit parade in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Rumania and Switzerland. At her home base, Paris, where the tousled blonde is possessively known as "La Petulante Petula," she has collected the Grand Prix du Disque (just like Edith Piaf and Yves Montand before her), and earlier this year got the Bravos du Music Hall, France's annual award to the female show-business success of the year...
...which was apparently just what the audience wanted. They gasped when the first offering, an 8-in. by 61-in. pencil and crayon drawing by Pissarro, drew a walloping $2,300. From then on, there was no stopping them. Bids came in volleys as Chagall's La Madone du Village shot up to $82,500 (v. his previous all-time high of $77,500). Bonnard's opalescent bath peekaboo at his wife, La Glace Haute, went to the Carnegie Institute for $155,000 (v. $101,000). When Degas' Repetition de Ballet, a pastel and gouache painting considered...
...other university endowment funds have since followed suit-and why not? Harvard's insurance company equities alone have trebled to a current worth of $58 million, and its other interests include $108 million in oil and gas, $160 million in public utilities. Among star performers: $10 million in Du Pont, $12.5 million in General Motors and $26 million in IBM. Surprisingly, there are also educational experts outside Harvard who are not overwhelmed by its wealth. John W. Gardner, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and a Stanford man, says that "in terms of the tasks...
...Du Pont cut some Corfam prices two weeks ago by 10% to 15%-or about 150 to 300 for each pair of shoes-and will cut further as production rises. Corfam shoes now sell for just about the same price as comparable leather shoes. Several of Du Pont's archcompetitors are trying to crack the Corfam formula. Secretly and intently Union Carbide, B.F. Goodrich, US Rubber and other companies are developing their own synthetics for the changing shoe industry...
Quick to Rise. Last year 50 firms interviewed students at INSEAD, and at least that many are expected this year, including such companies as IBM, Shell, Nestle, Air France, Du Pont, Phillips and Texas Instruments. Of INSEAD's 400 graduates, 60% have achieved managerial positions within two years. Some 80% of the graduates land in international companies. INSEAD's Giscard believes that "in less than ten years 600 or 700 of the largest international companies will achieve more than two-thirds of all world production." When that time arrives, INSEAD hopes, the men on the top will include...