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...Tropics. Governor Ralph Paiewonsky, however, is after bigger business. He offers a ten-year corporate tax forgiveness and other come-ons that have blown up a storm of protest. Many islanders objected when Paiewonsky agreed to pay $3,000,000 to Harvey Aluminum for dredging a ship channel near a $25 million alumina plant that it is building on the island of St. Croix. To critics Paiewonsky snaps: "We don't want suitcase industry that comes in and takes tax concessions for ten years and then runs out. Heavy industry is what we need...
Filmed in blatant color (plenty of raw sienna) in the booming channel city of Boulogne, Muriel delights the eye chiefly in the sentient beauty of Marienbad's Delphine Seyrig. She arrestingly portrays a frightened, fortyish widow who invites her former lover to a reunion after a separation of 22 years. A freeloading weakling and barfly, Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Kerien) arrives from Paris accompanied by a young actress he introduces as "my niece." The girl quickly attaches herself to the widow's melancholy stepson, recently returned from the war in Algeria. Soon the unlikely quartet is caught...
...company dredged the opening channel through the reefs of Pearl Harbor in 1902, eventually deepened it enough to change Pearl from a little coaling station to one of the world's great harbors. Walter Dillingham used the muck dragged up from the sea to fill in low, marshy areas around Honolulu, over the years created 5,000 acres of solid ground that now holds a full third of the city's population, is valued at upwards of $280 million. Most valuable of all is a section that before 1925 was nothing but a narrow sand crescent, covered with...
...payments problems of its own, would gladly find excuses to pull back its Rhine army; already the London Daily Express advises its readers that if the U.S. can swiftly fly divisions across the Atlantic, it would be all the easier for Britain to perform the same stunt across the Channel...
Various faculty members might be willing to lecture at Negro colleges for short periods, or even to spend a term in residence. And departments might try to channel some of their graduate students into teaching jobs at these institutions, as they have done for other small colleges. Surely universities produce some Ph.D.'s willing to stray off the road to tenure for a few years to take advantage of such a unique teaching opportunity...