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Brand-New City. The financial genius behind Nimba is Swedish Financier Marcus Wallenberg, 64 (TIME, June 7), who saw the opportunities in Liberia and knitted together half a dozen Swedish mining companies and U.S. and German financial interests into a complex consortium called LAMCO-Libe-rian American-Swedish Minerals Co. LAMCO dispatched Geologist Clark to Nimba when almost everyone else in Liberia was searching elsewhere for iron. After Clark's discovery, President William Tubman's government gave the company exemption from taxes and a mining concession until 2023 in return for half ownership of LAMCO. A substantial junior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: A Mountain of Riches | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...touch with anyone of a particular flavor and can't judge adequately from the Freshman Register, you should go to certain addresses. Peaches center about dorm living rooms, the Spa, Widener reading room, and organized social functions. Chocolates are upstairs in their room, in Mallinckrodt, in "Rad Libe," in Restaurants, at their organization's headquarters, or eating early dinner. Limes are also in Widener (although more likely in the stacks, than the reading room), in cafeterias and coffee shops, in the Fogg, and in people's apartments...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: The Three Flavors of Radcliffe | 3/12/1963 | See Source »

...academic side of life at Swarthmore, your article did us more than justice, though it did not mention our predilection for study in the "Libe." However, honors students are not chosen by examinations, but rather on their general record of study for the first two years. Also, the percentage of students who graduate with honors is usually less than the 50% you quoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1940 | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Females: Abigail, Bela, Chinke, Driesel, Fradchen, Frommet, Gole, Hadassah, Hannacha, Hitzel, Jezebel, Judith, Libe, Mathel, Pesschen, Pessel, Pirle, Rachel, Rebekka, Rivka, Sara, Schlämche, Tana, Zipora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Names | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Sports. Football Coach Fielding H. Yost tells how deaf-mutes use sign-signals where others shout. In the "Jere to Libe" volume Helen Wills relates how lawn tennis was introduced to the U. S.?via Bermuda, in 1874. "There was some difficulty in getting the [first tennis] outfit through the custom house, as no one knew what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Patriarch Revised | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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