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Both Flather and Julian worked in Africa during their two years with the Peace Corps. Flather taught in Ghana and is presently studying African history at Columbia. Julian served as a geologist in Tanganyika and is now at U.C.L.A. working for a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology. Sxanton, who was a teaching aid in the Philippines, will do graduate work in the social sciences at the University of Chicago...
Died. William Embry Wrather, 80, petroleum geologist, longtime (1943-56) chief of the U.S. Geological Survey, who pioneered the use of micropaleontology (the study of fossils) for finding oil with the 1918 strike at the Desdemona field in Texas, later in Washington spearheaded the wartime campaign to make the U.S. self-sufficient in vital materials that led to the discovery of substantial domestic deposits of vanadium, tungsten, manganese and other valuable ores; of a stroke; in Washington...
...financial genius behind Nimba is Swedish Financier Marcus Wallenberg, 64 (TIME, June 7), who saw the opportunities in Liberia and knitted together half a dozen Swedish mining companies and U.S. and German financial interests into a complex consortium called LAMCO-Libe-rian American-Swedish Minerals Co. LAMCO dispatched Geologist Clark to Nimba when almost everyone else in Liberia was searching elsewhere for iron. After Clark's discovery, President William Tubman's government gave the company exemption from taxes and a mining concession until 2023 in return for half ownership of LAMCO. A substantial junior partner in the project...
...local tribesmen have long avoided fog-shrouded Mount Nimba in Western Liberia as a spot inhabited by duwa -the sinister "little people" who have old men's faces and feet that turn backward. But Scottish Geologist Sandy Clark, a more prosaic fellow, found no such world of spirits when he scaled Nimba eight years ago. He found something almost as extraordinary: "a world of iron ore"-one of the largest reserves of high-grade ore (at least 260 million tons) ever discovered...
Prudent Politics. Aside from consulting four parents on their projected oil needs, Aramco's easygoing President Thomas C. Barger, 54, runs his own shop. Barger's career tells much about the company: a geologist who arrived in Saudi Arabia in 1937, Barger spent four parched years prospecting the Rub' al Khali, learned to eat roast camel with his fingers and speak fluent Arabic, became Aramco's chief negotiator with the shrewd Saudis...