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When it comes to go-getter companies for the 1980s, the name Ma Bell does not leap readily to mind. For years the world's largest business enterprise, with assets of more than $114 billion, has also been one of the dullest. Its deserved reputation is that of a lumbering pachyderm, content with its status as a Government-protected monopoly that controls 83% of the U.S. telephone market...
...eighteenth-century villa at Chiswick. In Venice one must walk by circuitous smelly back passages fair out of one's way to avoid being seer in the Piazza San Marco . . . Each tourist center has its interdicted zone: in Rome you avoid the Spanish Steps ... in Paris the Deux Ma gots and the whole BouF Mich area in Nice the Promenade des Anglais in Egypt Giza with its excessive!} popular pyramids ... in Hawai Waikiki. Avoiding Waikiki bring! up the whole question of why one'; gone to Hawaii at all, but that's exactly the problem...
Roland Von Huene, the U.S. Geological Survey ma rine geologist who first spot ted the curious object, recalls: "The center hole had clearly been made by tools...
...scene is like a calendar photograph displaying the splendors of rural life. At the Jin Ma (Golden Horse) commune on the lush Chengdu Plain of Sichuan province, the well-watered rice fields are emerald green. Thatch houses are surrounded by luxuriant clumps of bamboo and persimmon. Hundreds of teen-agers work at a prosperous collective silk-spinning plant near by. The peasants have radios, watches, bicycles, money in the bank, food on the table. Some of them treasure framed red certificates, whose bold black characters commend them for having achieved "wealth through diligent labor." Clearly, the Jin Ma commune...
Indeed, only 100 miles to the southwest of Jin Ma, in one of the province's many hilly regions, the picture is far different. On the remote Long Chi (Dragon's Pond) commune, perched on the lower slopes of 9,000-ft-high Mount Emei, the soil is rocky and dry. Farming is confined to low-yielding terraces that have been carved out of the hills and planted primarily with corn. Peasant incomes are one-third of those on the wealthy Jin Ma commune; they average $44 a year, more than half of which is distributed in grain...