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Some of his schemes to water Peru's deserts, tame its Andean mountains and populate its Amazonian jungles sound visionary to an extreme. Peruvians are at least willing to let him try. "We must not be afraid of greatness," he says. "We have lost the habit of thinking on...
Bargain Investments. Many of today's foreign buyers are Europeans (mostly Germans, followed by the Dutch, Belgians and Swiss) impelled partly by a desire to escape dismal winters but still more by the smell of a bargain investment. Florida lots often cost about one-fifth the price of a...
Sohn planned to obtain his plane from British Eagle Airlines, a regularly scheduled carrier between London and the continent. British Eagle purchased the prop jets that the British Overseas Airways sold after last summer, according to Sohn. All HSA European charter flights in 1964 used the BOAC planes, but this...
California, that land of anomalies, imports 36% of its crude oil while the continent's largest proven reservoir of untapped oil sits untouched under the harbor and waterfront of Long Beach. The size of this pool-1.2 billion bbl.-has been certain for four years, but Long Beach ordinances...
Died. Jan Carl Van Panthaleon Bar on Eck, 84, founder and former president (1923-36) of Shell Union Oil Co., U.S. branch of the vast Royal Dutch/ Shell complex, a Dutch nobleman's son who in 1911 was sent across the Atlantic to investigate the possibilities for a foreign...