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Working your way up Boylston Street, you find the Crimson Travel Service willing to sell you a round-trip ticket to Europe for $29.30-provided that you're accompanied by an adult and under two years old. Barring that, they will send you to Aruba for a week and bring you back for $229. Rix Drugs has Countess Lydia Grey facial tissue for 5 cents...
...farms still tilled by horse and hand in underdeveloped countries. In Taiwan. Mobil Oil and Allied Chemical have teamed with a local firm to build a $20 million urea-and-ammonia plant. Esso Chemical Co. is investing $200 million in fertilizer factories in 13 areas as disparate as Aruba and Malaysia. In the Philippines, Esso built a fertilizer plant and sent teams of native salesmen out into the paddies to show suspicious farmers how much more money they could earn by using agricultural chemicals. Last week a three-man Indian government delegation headed by Agriculture Secretary B. Sivaraman came...
JOHN B. VAN OGTROP, M.D. Aruba, Netherlands Antilles
Most of the world's 200 desalinization plants, though, from Kuwait to Aruba to Chocolate Bayou, Texas, operate on the "teakettle technique," the colloquial name for multistage flash distillation. In this system, sea water is heated and sprayed into a low-pressure chamber where it flashes into steam. As it passes through a series of similar chambers, even more fresh water is steamed off until, in the more efficient operations, an average of 3½ gallons of sea water is turned into a gallon of fresh. So pure is the result that sometimes a jigger of such contaminants...
Lapidus followed his Florida successes with the 176-room Arawak Hotel in Jamaica and the 150-room Aruba Caribbean-Casino in the Netherlands West Indies...