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...days after his arrival, Mondale became the first U.S. leader in history to address the world's largest nation on Chinese television. Speaking from the auditorium of Peking University, Mondale announced plans to provide technical assistance to help China build hydroelectric power. The Vice President later described the plan as the largest-hi scope and complexity-hi the proliferating network of ties between China...
DIED. Samuel I. Newhouse, 84, newspaper publisher who built the U.S.'s third largest chain (daily circ. 3.2 million); of a stroke; in Manhattan. A shy 5 ft. 2 in. dynamo who said that not being noticed "is the advantage of being a shrimp," Newhouse got big in newspapers quietly. Beginning in 1922, he acquired a succession of rundown papers and turned them into a string of profit makers that stretched from Alabama to Oregon. In the 1950s he started buying already lucrative properties, among them Conde Nast, publisher of Vogue. His family-owned dominion...
Brazilian and U.S. experts, using the "miracle rice" imported from the Philippines, are developing the world's largest fields, which already cover some 7,900 acres. A big poultry farm is being set up, and experiments are under way to breed a more robust strain of water buffalo...
...Ludwig is sole owner of his enterprises and thus must answer to no one. Operating from offices in Manhattan's Burlington House, he runs a maze of companies (he has 19 in Brazil alone). His flagship firm, National Bulk Carriers, operates one of the world's largest private fleets of huge supertankers and cargo ships. He is also proprietor of an array of global enterprises, which include the Princess hotel chain in Mexico, the Bahamas and Bermuda, oil refineries and a number of savings and loan associations...
...wild that Ludwig was obliged to become a one-man development program. In the past twelve years, his Jari Forestry and Agricultural Enterprises has invested some $780 million, of which $520 million came directly from Ludwig's resources. He has carved from the rain forest four towns (the largest of which is Monte Dourado), as well as an 85-bed hospital, four schools, 4,500 miles of roads and trails, a 26-mile railroad, and three small airports. The project has attracted so many job seekers, peddlers and hangers-on that the population of the area has surged from...