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...least three valuable exhibits: a series of photographs showing the rebels executing leading citizens, a 22-year-old Burundi prisoner who, Tshombe claims, was a "captain of the rebel general staff," and a symbol of revolutionary arrogance-a rubber stamp marked "République Révolutionnaire du Congo, Secteur Albertville." Evidence in hand, he took a much more important step toward winning African sympathies: as he left for Addis Ababa, Tshombe ordered the hated white mercenaries shipped home...
Hems Heavenward. Fragonard, who flippantly signed his works "Frago," was an exemplar of the rococo age. Born in 1732, he studied under François Boucher. He was befriended by the American minister in Paris, Benjamin Franklin, and by Madame du Barry, who commissioned him to do the series called the Progress of Love that is now in Manhattan's Frick Collection. One of his best-known works shows a girl on a swing, her hems heavenward, being pushed while her lover looks...
Other French enterprises in South Viet Nam range from cigarette factories to oxygen plants, from Asia's third-largest brewery to the Societé Vietnamienne du Jute, which turns out 3,000,000 sacks a year for holding the rice crop. Three French banks handle 39% of the country's banking, and 100 or so French firms control its insurance, hotels, cinemas, printing and shipping. French companies also hold part interest in many Vietnamese firms...
...speed 3600, a machine that averages $3,000,000 in price, is designed for data processing as well as for scientific problems. The 3600 will be used, for example, by West Germany to forecast weather, by Sears Roebuck to coordinate orders from 1,400 offices, and by Francis I. du Pont & Co. to receive and channel stock orders to specialists...
...nose to grindstone. The first two weeks of the current session, which began on July 12, dealt with "Internal Administration of a Business Enterprise." Says Professor of Management Dr. Charles E. Summer Jr.: "We hit them with everything from a series of talks by executives from Westinghouse, IBM and Du Pont to the administrative problems of a mythical outfit called the Wiz-Away Skate Company. You might say that Wiz-Away was on thin ice, management-wise...