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...Australia to build a $25 million refinery for Standard-Vacuum Refining Co.; the Ralph M. Parsons Co. of Los Angeles has five projects abuilding in Japan, three in India, three more in Turkey and Iran, others in Sweden, England, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii and Colombia. San Francisco's Bechtel Corp. has been in Venezuela building the Cerro Bolivar iron-ore development (TIME, June 1) for U.S. Steel, is now on the other side of the world building a 100,000-bbl.-a-day oil refinery in Aden for the Anglo-Iranian...
...Actually eight: MK, Henry J. Kaiser Co. (Oakland, Calif.), W. A. Bechtel (San Francisco), Utah Construction Co., MacDonald & Kahn Inc. (San Francisco), J. F. Shea Co.. Inc. (Los Angeles), Pacific Bridge Co. (Portland, Ore.) and General Construction Co. (Seattle...
Late in August three Americans trespassed in the holy city of Mecca, forbidden to infidels. The Americans-Walter Coughlan, Antone Silva and Clyde Jackson-were employees of International Bechtel, a U.S. firm doing construction work in Saudi Arabia. Since they were not newcomers in the country, it seemed clear that they had foolishly driven their car to Mecca out of a sense of adventure, not because they had lost their way or were ignorant of a centuries-old taboo...
...Bechtel representatives and a U.S. Embassy man have been allowed to see them and bring them food. In Washington, officials were quick to point out that the Saudis had been provoked and were well within their rights...
Preacher Wanted. After six years, the congregation (712 members) is sorry to see Leslie Bechtel go. But as he and his wife set out this week for the Wisconsin woods, Pastor Bechtel looked forward to getting away from the things that money will buy. "Talk about trouble," he recently told a friend. "I never knew people could have so much trouble until I came here. Suicides, family separations, juvenile delinquency-it's enough to wear...