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...Million Cancellation. There has been more coming than going. Already in the foundation stage are the buildings of the Bell System, Du Pont. Eastman Kodak, Electric Power & Light. Ford. Festival of Gas, IBM, General Motors, Sinclair Oil, Travelers Insurance, and the heliport. The international exhibitors are somewhat farther behind; 65 foreign exhibitors have declared their "intent" to be present. Of these, at least 35 have signed up for specific space, 17 have submitted designs. and two - Hong Kong and Vatican City* - have started test borings. Altogether, 83% of international area space has been allocated, 71% of the industrial area...
...largest private shipowner, one of its biggest brewers, a major power in banking and insurance, and boss, in all, of more than 100 companies. Next week the baking powder baron is due in New York to inspect the Columbus Lines (18 cargo ships), which he bought from Du Pont five years...
...much good to us now. We might lay it face downward and use it as part of the floor." ∙ ∙ ∙ Raptly gazing at herself on screen, Brigitte Bardot, 27, liked what she saw almost as much as the Paris critics. Her latest flick, Le Repos du Guerrier (The Warrior's Rest), directed by ex-Husband Roger Vadim, was lavishly lauded as her best bedtime story to date. To celebrate, she and her constant consort, Actor Sami Frey, 27, buzzed off to a Right Bank bistro to nuzzle the night away, touching off a spate of speculation...
...levied two quid For the terrible thing that he did, But one M.P.'s quibble Was "What's good for Dame Sybil Must be good for each Sark invalid." Dame Sybil disdained his appeals, Only she could have motorized wheels. Her parliament said Sure To her droit du seigneur, No matter how other folk feels. ∙∙∙ With classic British nonchalance. Actor James Mason, 53. and his estranged wife Pamela, 44, launched a laconic legal battle in a Santa Monica court to divvy up the spoils of their marriage. Pamela demanded an allowance...
...Wallace, 73, a well satisfied borrower from the old library. While furrowing away on his 115-acre farm (chickens, gladioli, hybrid corn) nearby, Wallace had asked the little, 9,500-book library to find him a rare edition of a 400-page treatise published in 1766 called Histoire Naturelle du Fraisier (Natural History of the Strawberry Plant). Sure enough, after shelling out $500 for a surety bond, the library got it from the New York Botanical Gardens. Wallace hopes to incorporate some of the book's sketches into a last-word tome he himself is writing on the history...