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...territory for their own benefit. First, France, which still controls much of the region along the Congo's northwestern border, began glancing covetously at the Lower Congo, the narrowing western edge around Leopoldville, which is the Congo's only outlet to the sea. Then, 1,500 miles inland, the British-controlled Rhodesian Federation was talking of annexing the Congo's Katanga province, which produces 60% of Congo wealth from a mineral-rich (copper, cobalt, diamonds, uranium) strip lying directly to the north of the Rhodesias...
...winding road in the Prades mountains, inland from the ancient Spanish city of Tarragona, stands the Cistercian monastery of Poblet, a place that is hard to get to and equally difficult to leave behind. It was founded in the middle of the 12th century by monks imported from the Fontfroide monastery in France. As always with Cistercian monasteries, the monks had picked their site with a view to maintaining a balance between the spiritual and the useful. In the center of the main cloister bubbled a pure natural spring. The surrounding fields were and are fertile, and the blue...
President John F. Smith Jr. of Inland Steel Co. estimated that 1960 steel-industry production will hit 120 to 125 million tons, down from his earlier forecast of 130 million, but still way above the previous record of 117 million tons in 1955. "Caution is in the wind," said Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Chairman Avery C. Adams, "because there are a few tangible signs that the early 1960 targets for the economy as a whole were set too high." Nevertheless, he expects that his company, fourth biggest steelmaker, will set records for 1960 sales and profits...
Order of Sparta. No race has ever been canceled because of cold. Once fierce winds drove the races from the Sound to a sheltered inland pond, and there Knapp's sister was disqualified for thunking into a chicken coop. Today, the most devout followers are joined in the no-dues, no-assets Frostbite Yacht Club. The club burgee is a polar bear standing on a cake of ice, his rump raised to the wind, and after the annual regatta, awards are passed out: i.e., Upholder of the Right of the Port Tack (to the skipper with the least regard...
...they hope to learn how to win sales and influence customers. More important, most businessmen know that they must do a far better job of explaining their beliefs and goals. "Society today demands from management a restatement of the purposes of free enterprise." says Clarence Randall, onetime chairman of Inland Steel Co. "Our creed is being distorted by our enemies, and we are not talking back. Sometimes I ask myself guiltily whether we are capable of talking back...