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Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill often stayed there with "Copper Top," as Rosa called young Winston. Other cherished guests were Lord Northcliffe, General Kitchener and the Duke of Windsor, upper bohemians such as Ellen Terry, G. B. Shaw, Isadora Duncan, Artists John Singer Sargent and Augustus John (who both painted Rosa), and "all the American aristocrats...
Nine years ago, when Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland united to form the Central African Federation, this new Commonwealth nation looked good to foreign capital. Lured primarily by the riches of Northern Rhodesia's famed Copper Belt (current production: 600,000 tons a year), U.S. and European companies swarmed in to throw up everything from oil refineries to auto assembly plants. Before long, the federation's sprawling capital of Salisbury, a city about the size of El Paso, began to enjoy a wild building boom...
Today, 20% of the office space in Salisbury is vacant, and only by imposing rigid exchange controls has the federation government managed to avert a crippling flight of capital. On the London Stock Exchange, shares in Rhodesian Selection Trust, one of the titans of the Copper Belt, have dropped from 37 shillings to 25-despite the fact that they pay an 18% annual dividend...
Soriano likes to say that business "must help the country," and he has played a major role in developing such Philippine resources as gold, iron, copper and lumber, as well as in the development of local industry to capitalize on those resources...
...kind of light reading around here." Well then, he was asked, why did Kennedy blow his top? "I think the culmination came," Salinger went on, "with the disclosure that the Herald Tribune completely ignored the stockpiling investigation." He was referring to a leftover Eisenhower Administration scandal, in which a copper company got a $6,000,000 windfall. Salinger was wrong, argued Trib Reporter David Wise. The Trib had indeed missed early editions with the story, but finally carried it-in the second section on page 32. Humphed Salinger: "If we're interested in history we'll start buying...