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...drilling contractor, got $60,000 from Wise County landowners willing to take a chance. The first well came in with an estimated reserve of more than 5 billion cu. ft. of gas, worth about $500,000. But since the drillers had no customer for the gas, banks refused to lend money to drill the other two wells. Lone Star Gas, which also had gas wells in Wise County, offered to buy the well for a mere $15,000, which Jackson refused. Discouraged, he went back to his consulting work as a geologist...
ATLAS OF THE BIBLE (165 pp.; Nelson; $15) actually lends a new dimension to Bible reading. Its maps pinpoint the geography of Old and New Testament history; its hundreds of photographs lend a sense of life to the setting; its synthesis and summary of archaeology and Bible history put a firm floor of factual meaning under the text of the Bible itself...
...side, and the peoples of color on the other. The Soviet Union must not be allowed to have a monopoly of defending the latter group. These two principles are justified." Pineau added: "But what is not, and what is even singularly paradoxical, is to conclude that the U.S. should lend its help to Nasser. Despite our bitterness, we cannot renounce either U.S. friendship or the Atlantic Alliance. It is our only safeguard against a fate similar to that of Hungary...
...intricate tax case dates back to 1942, when Eaton set out to finance a new iron mine under Steep Rock Lake in western Ontario (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942. et seq.). Eaton raised $2,250,000 from U.S. investors, got the RFC to lend Steep Rock another $5,000,000, and got agreements from the Canadian and Ontario governments that would exempt Steep Rock from paying taxes until iron was produced...
...bullfighting is an art, it is an art of motion; it doesn't lend itself well to overstatement or description of any static kind. Perhaps that is why there has been so much bad writing about bullfighting. Though not a bad film, Bullfight is somewhat pretentious: it tries to cover too much material and is edited skillfully but too much...