Word: dealings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Latin America (a Rockefeller specialty) : In Dallas, he came out for a broad new Latin America program, including "economic union," stepped-up cultural exchange, and "imaginative" measures to deal with Latin America's lag in education and health...
...time limit of the contracts made speed advisable, and the companies moved fast. Texas' Loffland Bros., drilling for Pan American, shipped ten rigs to Comodoro Rivadavia within 60 days after the deal was closed, so far has brought in 81 wells. The Loeb, Rhoades group, on proven ground in central Mendoza province, has brought in 48 wells; Tennessee Gas hit four producers in Tierra del Fuego. Wildcatting in Patagonia, Union Oil brought in a new field in November...
...monologues or variety turns, at giving a mockingbird's-eye view of a given subject. Dotted with bright remarks, The Fighting Cock half a dozen times foams up into pointed or picturesque little scenes. But instead of a sense of fermentation beneath the foam, there is a good deal of dramatic flatness. It is not so much that the play finds no destination as that it fails to dramatize the very lack of one. What The Fighting Cock needed, in the face of an all but preordained intellectual stalemate, was a greater emotional leverage, a more vibrant dramatic charge...
Vienna-born, Koerner came to the U.S. in 1939, lives in a Victorian gingerbread-style house in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill section. His new pictures deal, often harshly and always provocatively, with the basic human condition, especially in America. As pictures, they have beauty, but their content is seldom beautiful. "America's beauty," Koerner jauntily explains, "is in its ugliness...
Over the Bounding Main. Delfino became intrigued by the possibilities of Down Under livestock in 1957, made a deal with the New Zealand government to ship 1,500 steers to the U.S. He chartered an old coal-burning British banana boat with a Panamanian registry, a Filipino captain, Australian officers, Chinese crewmen and Indian and Filipino herdsmen to handle the cattle. But he was in trouble before he cleared port...