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Other Harvard teams in Liberia, Argentina, and Pakistan are not financed by the Ford Foundation, Papanek said. These are not faced with disruption as in Colombia, he added...
Died. Lansdell K. Christie, 61, founder and president of Liberia Mining Co., the West African country's first modern iron-ore mine (3,000,000 tons in 1964), who discovered Liberia's mineral potential during World War II while serving as an officer in the U.S. Army Engineers, in 1946 began developing the deposits with early financing from Republic Steel, making himself such a fortune that in 1960 he was able to help bankroll Liberia's big Mano River iron-ore project with an interest-free loan of $1,700,000; after a short illness; in Syosset...
...white Southern Baptist Convention. Last week, following up declarations on racial justice passed by their annual sessions in June, Southern Baptists joined with other delegates to elect without opposition the first Negro president of the Baptist World Alliance. He is William R. Tolbert Jr., 52, vice president of Liberia since...
...banker and mining executive as well as a lay pastor of a Liberian church, Tolbert seemed less excited by the significance of his election than were some other Baptists. "I haven't given it much thought," he said. "You see, we are not really racially conscious in Liberia...
Sharpening Competition. While Britain handicaps its steel industry by excluding U.S. coal and Germany admits only a small quota, Italy has become one of Europe's lowest-price steelmakers (despite its lack of native iron or coal) by relying on coastal plants, American coal and ore from India, Liberia, Canada, Venezuela and Brazil. Aided by this reliance, Italian steel output has shot up 41% in seven years. A similar formula (Australian ore, coal from the U.S.) has made Japan's wholly seaside steel industry the world's No. 3 producer and a formidably competitive exporter from Detroit...