Word: gunthers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author Charles Dickens visited Pittsburgh, held his ears and called the town "hell with the lid lifted." Over a century later. Author John Gunther passed through, held his nose and described it (in Inside U.S.A.) as "one of the most shockingly ugly and filthy cities in the world." Last week much-abused Pittsburghers looked around, held their breath, and i) heard plans for a null $12 million skyscraper for their bustling Gateway Center; 2) watched the barricades go up for a 17-story. $7,000.000, metal-sheathed monolith for Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co.; 3) got the designs...
March of Medicine (Tues. 9:30 p.m., NBC). "Medical Missionary," with Commentator John Gunther...
Hired by a Los Angeles engineering firm to hunt out new deposits in the southwestern U.S. and the Mexican desert, discouraged by his failure and waiting impatiently for a primping girl friend to meet him at the library, Geologist Charles Godfrey Gunther idly thumbed his way through an old volume of ancient history. His eye fell on a chapter concerning ancient Cyprus and copper. Months later, with the backing of Colonel Seeley Mudd and Philip Wiseman, Gunther began the long and finally successful search for new copper on Cyprus. Twenty years of U.S. perseverance, frugality and hardship passed before...
Uncertain Future. Today the copper mines developed by Gunther, and still largely controlled by the American Mudd family of Los Angeles, have become Cyprus' largest industry, supporting some 2,000 of its inhabitants and providing more than 25% of the island's entire annual revenue. Cyprus Mines Corp. exports nearly 1,000,000 tons of copper a year, runs an up-to-date, 65-bed hospital for its employees, has built scores of low-cost houses for them to live in, helps to run schools, sports clubs, welfare centers and summer camps for their families, and pays...
...African Giant, by Stuart Cloete, was a profound and troubled attempt to search out the deeper sources of Africa's troubles. Having briefly hopped Inside Africa, John Gunther came out with a bestselling, massive catch-all that was short on analysis but gave his usual breezy impression of having exhausted his subject...