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...Douglas Smith, 46, is Rhodesia's first native-born Prime Minister. His father came to the land from Scotland in 1898, settled down to make his fortune as a gold miner, cattle farmer and butcher in the town of Selukwe, 180 miles southwest of Salisbury. "My father rubbed shoulders with Cecil Rhodes," Smith says proudly. "He was one of the fairest men I have ever met, and that is the way he brought me up. He always told me that we're entitled to our half of the country and the blacks are entitled to theirs...
...make products as diverse as guitars, jet-engine parts and survival equipment for spacemen. Last week, in its most ambitious diversification, G. & W. made a deal to merge with New Jersey Zinc Co. If shareholders of both companies approve as expected, G. & W. will take over the biggest U.S. miner of zinc, a metal that is increasingly in demand for missiles, artillery shells and autos...
Poverty is the Greene County, N.C., Negro worker, whose annual income averages $213. Poverty is the Georgia woman who cannot fill out a job application because she does not know the meaning of "spouse" or "maiden name." Poverty is the laid-off Colorado miner who does not move to a richer job market because he cannot sell his house and is afraid to lose his seniority or pension. It is the Detroit construction hand who has not worked since most of the big building jobs moved to the suburbs, because he is too illiterate to get a driver...
...three kids at home, and I raised them on less than $2,000 a year, and I'm proud of it. You ain't poor until your spirit goes, and I think it goes if you keep on taking handouts." One impoverished ex-miner in Pennsylvania has a freezer loaded with vegetables from his backyard garden-and a shotgun in the kitchen to pepper the pants of any welfare worker who wants to check up on just how much he possesses...
Looking for a mica miner in the Malagasy Republic? Need to find a chemical plant in Czechoslovakia? Like to buy a typewriter in Thailand? Anyone can find these three-and 2,900 other categories of business in 136 countries-by thumbing through a new kind of directory called the International Yellow Pages. Conceived by Robert A. Nellson, 50, a Rochester, N.Y., advertising executive, International Yellow Pages has gone through two editions since it was first published in 1963. A new and bigger third edition is now being prepared; it will contain 540,000 listings (including country, town, street address...