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...past ten years, the West has poured $3.8 billion in public and private investments into the Middle East-the largest single chunk of cash the region had ever seen.* What has it bought for the area...
...with Sid Richardson, he controls Kirby Petroleum in Houston. Other interests: a restaurant in California, a club building in Denver, a small newspaper in Texas, a Tennessee motel, Easy Washing Machine of Syracuse, a curb-service grocery chain in Dallas, a Mexican silver factory, and a big chunk of Missouri Pacific bonds...
...were convincing evidence that a woman had at last become pre-eminent in a field long dominated by men. The works ranged from early representational carvings like Contemplative Figure (1928), a sensual but reposeful torso and head, to latter-day exercises in pure form such as Pastorale (1953), a chunk of gracefully carved marble pierced by strangely undulating tunnels. Another new work, Totem, was an imposing abstraction in wood and swirling hollows...
...kilowatts of electric power. On the $20 million job, M-K men were boring a 3,500-ft. river-diversion tunnel, blasting a huge underground powerhouse from the bowels of a mountain. The air was blue with humidity; the sides of the cavern dripped water; every so often, a chunk of rock broke loose, came crashing down like a thunderbolt in a closet. The men knew that they might catch amoebic dysentery, malaria, or many another crippling tropical disease, that it would rain every day, that they would not see their families for months...
High Finance. This week Young and his two friends cleared up the mystery of the purchase. It turned out that 1) the Texans had spent none of their own money to get the stock, and 2) Bob Young's Alleghany Corp. had clearly put up a large chunk of the money to finance the stock purchase. But no one agreed on exactly how the deal had been arranged...