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...last week, the New York Herald Tribune ferreted out the newest name on the growing list: Clarence Randall, 66, retired head of Inland Steel Co. and special assistant to the President on foreign economic policy. Randall was offered the Pentagon. He had turned it down cold...
...courageous sitter is Chicago Art Patron Mary Block, daughter of the late Adman Albert Lasker, wife of an Inland Steel Co. vice president and director, Leigh Block. Undaunted by such Albright canvases as Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, the study of a time-battered prostitute, That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do, the portrait of a moldy door, and the flotsam-and-jetsam-cluttered watercolor, Ah God-Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering Sea, Mary Block put her best face forward and hoped. Albright put aside (temporarily) his work in progress of the past twelve...
Pumps & Profits. Years ago, a marina could be built for a few thousand dollars: a wooden-piling dock, a gas pump, a shack to sell beer and bait. Today's marina may cost as much as $10 million or more for a layout as complete as any inland shopping center. Run properly, with low dockage rates (anywhere from ½?to 6? per foot per day depending on season) and efficient service, it can produce a handsome profit for any businessman. Says one East Coast marinaman: "With good management, you can conservatively make a 20% return on your investment each...
...Coal fields of 100 million tons were found far inland near Colomb-Béchar, are already producing 350,000 tons a year...
...their exhausts spout blue fumes into the mountain air. Tough, broadnosed bulldozers hungrily tear up the soil; potbellied scrapers scoop and level it; lumbering compact-ers press it down with their massive weight. Directly before the machines looms a 500-ft. hill that stood in the way of the inland-bound gold seekers of the 1840s, forced the Southern Pacific railroad and later a highway to slink humbly around its base. But it does not deter the road builders of 1957. Their rugged and powerful machines are slashing through the hill, cutting a 360-ft.-deep, 2,200-ft.-long...