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Compared to the Mississippi or the Missouri, the 306-mile-long Hudson is a whippersnapper waterway. Nonetheless, there is not a river on the continent that surpasses it in natural beauty; the great Karl Baedeker called its vistas "grander and more inspiring" than the Rhine's. Nor has any...
Before that breakthrough, in spite of huge and largely untapped coalfields, Australia imported coal from as far away as South Africa, still suffered power blackouts when supplies ran low. Today, 94% of Australia's growing power needs are generated by coal, there is ample coke for the continent'...
The cultivation of young African minds is as restricted as the cultivation of the African's land. A young Rhodesian learns in his first history lesson that "400 years ago, Africa was called a dark continent," and that it stayed that way until "the Victoria Falls were discovered by David...
Last week two big French organizations took just the sort of merger step that De Gaulle has been advocating. Pont-à-Mousson, France's second biggest private industrial company, with estimated 1965 sales of $1 billion, and the Compagnie Financière de Suez, one of the Continent'...
It is 21 years since peace came to Western Europe, and the Continent's postwar economies have reached a high measure of maturity. They continue to grow, but not nearly at the breathless rate of a few years ago. Western Europe's economic growth rate in 1964 raced...