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Dark and forbidding, the rocky pinnacle rises 9,750 ft. out of the Italian Dolomites, and the last 1,800 ft. of its north wall is as sheer and smooth as a Manhattan skyscraper. An Italian team first scaled Cima Grande di Lavaredo's north wall in 1933. and...
Brazil's recent practice of expropriating U.S. companies was proving both expensive and risky. In February 1962, the state government in Rio Grande do Sul expropriated Companhia Telefônica Nacional, an International Telephone and Telegraph subsidiary. Five months later, the governor of Pernambuco took over a subsidiary of...
Hofmokel has remedied that lack by setting up a Rube Goldberg process that begins when tankers from Tampico sail into Brownsville loaded with residual crude consigned to the Mexican national oil monopoly in the city of Matamoros just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville. Unloaded under U.S. customs supervision into...
But in Latin America's biggest nations, the prospects for foreign investors are steadily deteriorating. In Chile, where strikes in the U.S.-owned copper mines have become an annual rite, and taxes run as high as 81% of profits, Anaconda and Kennecott have scrapped expansion programs totaling $325 million...
The Birchers. who hold, among other convictions, that former U.S. President Eisenhower was a "conscious" Communist "agent," regard Pegler as a major journalistic haul. "Mr. Pegler will not be restrained in any way." said American Opinion Managing Editor Scott Stanley Jr. And Columnist Pegler, who in his days of relative...