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...much time on the shelf, Nabisco buys it back from the store and grinds it into pig feed. Among the recent failures that went to the hogs were Sesame Thins and Celery Thins. When one shareholder asked at the annual meeting why Sesame Thins had been dropped, Vice President Nile Cave answered: "This happens to be an item I personally like, but unhappily other people don't seem...
...dinosaur or a flying horse but a six-legged dog (it was a draftsman's mistake that caught Mattei's fancy). In the past two months E.N.I. has opened a distribution system in the Ivory Coast, won monopolistic exploration and production rights throughout Egypt's Nile Delta, and started up a $25 million refinery in Ghana. E.N.I. is preparing to bid on a major refinery contract in Ceylon, and last week rumors buzzed around Argentina that E.N.I. is angling to take over the controversial U.S., British and Dutch oil concessions there...
From Sweets to Steel. The Madhvanis profit almost every time an East African eats, drinks or washes. With companies that produce sugar, shortening, toffee, tea, soap, bottles and Nile brand beer, as well as a 20,000-acre sugar plantation in Uganda that is their biggest holding, the brothers last year earned $1,400,000 on sales of $14 million. This year in Tanganyika, they fired up East Africa's first steel rolling mill and are building a brewery and candy factory. In Uganda, judiciously allied with the government's development corporation, they will also build...
Nasser also made an impressive display of military muscle. Down the handsome Nile Corniche road in Cairo rolled new, two-stage rockets capable of launching a satellite into earth orbit and putting Israel, as well as Syria and Iraq, within easy missile range. Other new weapons included amphibious tanks, antiaircraft rockets, ground-to-air missiles, and supersonic jet fighters with speeds up to 1,350 m.p.h...
...years ago by Enrico Forlanini) has ferry service across the Strait of Messina, also on the Gulf of Naples and Lago di Garda. Hydrofoils are fairly common in the Soviet Union. Others skim along the Riviera and between several islands of the Aegean. Three hydrofoils ferry tourists on the Nile between Aswan and Abu Simbel...