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Sir: It seems very reasonable to conclude that if we had entered the Viet "Jam war to win [Sept. 8], bombing Haiphong, the dams, bridges, plants and power houses right at the start, instead of waiting till they had assembled the most powerful combination of antiaircraft weapons yet seen, our...
Died. Mohamed ben Laden, 53, Saudi Arabian construction king who could neither read nor write but whose computer-like memory for figures lifted him from laborer to Aramco construction boss in his mid-thirties, whereupon he quit to form his own company and with the late King Ibn Saud'...
Grand Coulee. In Cuba, on the contract that Kaiser always maintained had established his future, his company laid 200 miles of road and built 500 bridges in 41 years instead of the scheduled seven. Later, in what was then a novel concept, Kaiser teamed with five other contracting companies to...
The 4.6 million-kw. Urubupungá* project will increase the nation's power production in twelve years to 12 million kw. This is hardly startling by the standards of developed nations, but much of Brazil's huge area (3,290,000 square miles) will be affected. Most directly...
Revenue & Relief. Recently, at a ceremony on the Jupiá dam site, Brazilian President Arthur da Costa e Silva (TIME cover, April 21) was presented with a loan of $34 million from the Inter-American Development Bank. But 70% of the Urubupungá project was home financed. In fact, a...