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...present caught up with the age-old ways of the Batonga. In Salisbury, the decision was made to build a dam across the Kariba gorge to get the power needed for heavy industry and the copper mines. The dam would turn the Gwembe Valley into the world's largest man-made lake, storing 130 million acre-ft. of water-more than the combined capacity of the Shasta, Hoover and Grand Coulee dams in the American West. Soon the Kariba gorge, which had been inhabited only by crocodiles, hippos and an occasional Batonga hunter, echoed to the roar of earth...
...sixth largest bank in Malaya, with capital estimated at $20 million, Bank of China handles about one-third of all Malayan transactions with the Red mainland. It has played its part in boosting overall trade between the two countries to a whopping $152 million, of which $100 million represents a favorable balance for the Communists. Bank of China also engages in such un-bankerish activities as the financing of trips of Malayan students and businessmen to China, the charging of minimal interest for unsecured loans to favored individuals, and the relaying home of economic, political and military information...
...important post, Lopez Mateos reached outside the Ruiz Cortines ranks; Pascual Gutierrez Roldan, 55, replaced Antonio J. Bermudez as director of the government oil company (Pemex). A conservative businessman who ran up handsome profits as director general of the country's largest steel producer, Altos Hornos, he will no doubt try to cut down waste and featherbedding at Pemex...
...Kure, Japan, the onetime Japanese Imperial Naval Yard, now operated by U.S. Tanker Tycoon Daniel K. Ludwig's National Bulk Carriers, Inc., launched the world's largest tanker, the 104,500-ton (loaded) Universe Apollo. The first of five planned supertankers, the Universe surpasses the largest previous bulk carriers, Ludwig's 85,000-ton tankers. With a length of 950 ft. and a beam of 135 ft., Universe Apollo is the widest merchant ship afloat, and the third longest (ranking after the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary...
Expenses last year, however, ran to $57,642,474. Income from investments could provide only 24 per cent of this, and student tuition fees accounted for merely 22 per cent, according to the report. The largest single portion of income came from gifts and bequests...