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...bought by an Old Harrovian entrepreneur, blond, beefy Tim Holland. 35, who brags of learning bridge when he was nine. He transformed the club's venerable second floor with $80,000 worth of silk damask wall coverings and 18th century candelabra, imported eight French croupiers and French-made plastic chips representing $1,500,000 (highest chip: $2,800) for four chemmy and eight poker tables. In return for a cut of the take. Businessman Holland persuaded foxy old Isidor Abbecassis. Le Touquet's casino czar, to preside over his remodeled Pandemonium. Since by English law the house...
...electroshock treatments, and estimated that for these he gave infusions of a muscle relaxant in one out of ten cases. He also used narcoanalysis. injecting a barbiturate into an arm vein. Patient after patient testified that he had seen blood from previous use at the ends of syringes and plastic infusion tubes. Said one: "I didn't know whether it was supposed to be there...
...first few minutes, the spectator is inevitably aware of Trnka's technology. The puppets, flesh of pliable plastic poured on strong steel frames, are marvelously alive but not necessarily human. They are, in fact, inspired refractions of the poet's entities, born of a fancy quite as wild as Will's. "Sweet Puck," for instance, Shakespeare's "knavish sprite," is imagined as a sort of naughty Ariel, a boy with the soul of a faun. "Jealous Oberon" is a grand abstraction of stag, noble and serious but indifferent, a thing of dells and vanishings. a silence...
...Daily Telegraph still insisted that it "falls between several stools." while the London Times found in Ashton's work a "vital and pugnacious originality of invention." But few viewers, after they became accustomed to the deliberate jerkiness of the choreography, were bored-suggesting that Ashton's plastic surgery may have returned Persephone to the stage where it belongs...
From its Ionic-columned London headquarters building overlooking the Thames, Unilever conducts a globe-straddling business. Besides producing paper, plastic and chemicals, and operating a fleet of oceangoing freighters, Unilever sells soap, margarine, cooking oils, toilet articles, animal feed, canned and frozen foods, ice cream and sausages. Its 400 MacFisheries stores in Britain make it the world's largest fishmonger. One Unilever subsidiary, the United Africa Co., is the largest trader in Africa; another cultivates 213,710 acres of rubber, palm oil, cocoa and coffee plantations in six countries. With an annual ad budget of $300 million, Unilever...