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Surprisingly, only one winner will study medicine, but 31 plan to major in math, 13 in physics, seven in chemistry. In whatever field, the 121 honored teenagers prove that the country's "greatest resource" is a rich and varied lode...
Character & Compassion. U.S. headquarters of the Rhodes scholarship program, Swarthmore is a mother lode of university presidents, among them California's Clark Kerr ('32) and Cornell's James Perkins ('34). Few colleges claim more names in Who's Who; few boast alumni so diversely successful-Novelist James Michener, U.S. Budget Director Kermit Gordon, Industrialist Thomas B. McCabe (Scott Paper), and Pitcher Dick Hall ('53), Swarthmore's gift to the Baltimore Orioles...
With help from the World Bank, de Rothschild Freres created another consortium that has put up $166 million to exhume a rich iron lode in Mauritania. Among other companies that the Rothschilds control, Pefiarroya in Chile mines 7% of the free world's lead, and Le Nickel in New Caledonia produces 10% of the world's nickel. Under Guy, the Rothschilds have also built France's biggest private uranium mining company, which supplies some of the raw material for De Gaulle's force de frappe. And it was de Rothschild Freres that drafted the plan...
...vast brick factory, a printing plant capable of producing 40,000 newspapers an hour, though at most one in ten Guineans can read. Experts discovered that a Russian-built radio station, designed to beam the Voice of Toure the length of Africa, had been sited on an iron lode that badly interferes with transmission...
...instead of checks or folding money, he personally doled out the regular payroll to 150 of his Winrock farm hands, in the form of 20,000 clinking silver dollars done up in individual pouches. The experiment pleased at least one farm hand. Said he as he hefted home his lode: "A Rockefeller's silver is as good as gold...