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Next Marcus began buying Artloom stock, in June got himself elected chairman of the board. Thereafter he repeated his old spiel about big mergers to transform Artloom into a diversified manufacturing company. As before, the stock started up. When SEC looked closely last week, at least part of the reason was apparent. Not only did Marcus hold, at last report, 50,000 of Artloom's 504,982 outstanding shares, but the Manhattan brokerage firm of Van Alstyne, Noel & Co., of which Marcus is a partner, was reported to have had registered 225,000 shares for its own account...
Back to the Crusades. De Gaulle has no desire "to prejudge the destiny of Algeria," declared Malraux. What the general does want to do is to "transform" fraternization into some kind of voluntary association between France and Algeria-and in the process to give France a new sense of mission. "Some countries," Malraux proclaimed, "are never greater than when they fall back upon themselves-England, for instance. But the greatest France in the eyes of the world is not the France of Louis XIV; it is the France of the Crusades and that of the Revolution. And the French will...
...Latino press, Nixon's stand for revision was enough to transform him into a hemisphere hero. Said Caracas' El National: "Nixon [did] not lose sight of the vast problems of Latin America, which have nothing to do with Communism, and Nixon has moved a large section of North American opinion." Said the Mexico City weekly Siempre: "We stand with Mr. Nixon...
...Andes. Two years ago he resigned the university job to lead the opposition to Dictator Rojas. Before his own acceptance last week, Lleras had ruefully spelled out the qualifications for a Colombian president. He must be, said Lleras, "a magician, prophet, redeemer, savior and pacifier who can transform a ruined republic into a prosperous one, can make the prices of the things we export rise and the value of the things we consume drop." As the May 4 election date drew near, Colombians seemed convinced that Lleras was the man who came closest...
...Armand in his romantic quest, some of his flunkies bait a tender trap. They transform one of his surplus châteaux into a luxury hotel, designate one room as the Chambre d'Amour, to be rented only to beautiful women under the pretext that the owner of the suite is out of town. Armand's role is to enter the Chambre d'Amour in the night, valise in hand, surprising the sleeping beauty and then gallantly offering to spend the night on the neighboring couch. This bedroom farce promptly nets Armand two discontented wives, whom...