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In Xanadu, once upon a memory, Kubla Khan did a stately pleasure-dome decree. Some centuries later, Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia set out to fill a comparable palace in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) with Europe's finest paintings and artifacts. The result is now called the State...
Under construction in landlocked Switzerland, of all places, Oxy is the brainchild of a Swiss electronics engineer named Jean-Claude Protta, 32. An avid ocean sailor, Protta took a 15-month, 12,000-mile cruise and came home in 1971 with a headful of ideas about new electronic equipment for...
However they express their appreciation, the Japanese are now saturated with Occidental sound. It was during the reign of the actively Westernizing Emperor Meiji (1868-1912) that European music was adopted by the Japanese school system. But as recently as World War II, the country had only one major orchestra...
Government Takeover. Another complication is that during last year's election campaign, Wilson promised voters a 51% government takeover of the North Sea oilfields. The companies complain that when the Labor government first granted them concessions in the late 1960s, a takeover was not part of the deal. Worried...
Even so, OPEC investment in Western nations is picking up. Kuwait emerged last week as the purchaser of up to 14.6% of Daimler-Benz AG, the producer of Mercedes vehicles. The deal cost the Kuwaitis $300 million to $400 million, by far the most ever spent for a stock acquisition...