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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obstacles in the Dark. Their troubles came with the warmth of spring and summer. Ice Skate was cracking. The airstrip had already crumbled away from the rest of the floe. Again and again they built new strips as their drifting cake crumbled and chipped apart. Heavy windstorms swept over, first from one direction, then from another, moving the ice mass slowly to and fro with a sheer force that caused new cracks and pressure ridges...
Nelson Rockefeller owns three farms in Venezuela and will vacation in his hilltop hacienda-a white stucco colonial house with red tile roof built around a swimming pool-at La Mona, a 1,200-acre spread of potato and cattle land 90 miles southwest of Caracas. His farms are no mere rich man's fancy. Originally developed by the International Basic Economy Corp. (IBEC) that he founded to invest in Latin American development, the first farm lost so much money in a try at large-scale agriculture that Rockefeller bought it from IBEC, ran it himself...
...Bringing what he called a godfather grant" of $10 million, of which roughly three-fifths will be spent on a pair of Canadian-built passenger-cargo ships to be owned by the federation, the rest probably on West Indian port and navigational facilities...
...title but inherited nothing of the $300,000 estate, discomfitedly said: "If he was going to leave me the baby, he should have given me a perambulator to put it in." Home after ten years of self-exile, he set up temporary digs in an unheated room (built by his father for a farm employee) at Heather Cottage, Churt, Surrey, planned to scrape up a few guineas by turning up at the House of Lords, where peers in attendance...
...singular position of making more money than his boss ($65,000 v. $50,000). In addition, he understandably knew far more about the magazine. Now a grey-haired 53, Wiese was just 22 when he became editor of struggling McCall's in 1927. With a free hand, he built his magazine into a slickly edited blend of women's fiction and womanly fact that is second in circulation only to Curtis' high-heeled Ladies' Home Journal (5,695,399 v. 5,350,140). Wiese even thought up Togetherness-the celebration of the joys of cloyingly close...