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For the past nine years, under a veil of semisecrecy, Ludwig has spent more than $200 million on his Amazon company, Jari Forest Products, and he plans to lay out another $300 million in the next two or three years. Jari, named for the muddy, winding Amazon tributary that runs...
Jungle Crushers. Starting a timber business has involved Ludwig in a coals-to-Newcastle operation: cutting down jungle in order to plant new trees. The native forest contains far too many species of trees?more than 300 different kinds on any given acre?for profitable lumbering. At a cost of...
The Ford LTD is as big as ever, and a new, luxurious 1977 Continental Mark V is as long (but not as heavy) as its predecessor. Thunderbird, however, is 10 in. shorter this time to compete with the snazzy intermediate Chevrolet Monte Carlo and Chrysler Cordoba. A new LTD II...
Sabatini's talents as a stylist lie well to the south of, say, Sir Walter Scott's. He is a Monte Pythonesque coiner of clichés: rubies have a fearless tendency to "glow like live coals," and Frenchmen sputter expletives like "Name of a name!" and "By...
Died. Adolph Zukor, 103, movie pioneer who built Paramount Pictures Corp. and brought the feature film to U.S. audiences; in Los Angeles. A tiny (5 ft. 5 in.), restless dynamo who arrived in the U.S. from Hungary at age 16 in 1889 with $40 to his name, Zukor had a...