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...wonderful of all, the coast is virtually devoid of tourists. The reason is simple enough. Most of the Turkish Riviera has barely been touched by the 20th century. The hotels are few and Spartan, the food is good but unfamiliar, the night life is nil, and travel is tortuous. Overland, the only means of reaching the coast from Istanbul is a two-day trip over winding, pot-holed roads. But none of these problems plague most visitors to the Turkish Riviera-they come by sea. Crowded out of Monte Carlo and tired of touring the Greek islands, members...
...also became a pioneer of the industrial revolution. He built a model town for his 650 workers, named it Etruria for the ancient state in Italy whose rediscovered pottery helped spark the classical revival. He divided labor into a crude assembly line, carved a 93-mile canal to avoid overland transport of his fragile ware by horse, backed Inventors James Watt and Matthew Boulton, and installed one of their first industrial steam engines. His own invention, a pyrometer for measuring extremely high temperatures, helped to win him admission to the Royal Society...
...state-owned enterprises as the Volta Redonda steelworks, whose prices soared 148% last year. Though businessmen yelped when Campos raised taxes and suggested that they trim profit margins, they lined up to take the price pledge with a minimum of arm twisting. Says Max Pearce, the boss of Willys-Overland do Brasil: "Who can take the risk of not signing up?" New applications are pouring in so fast that CONEP has had to set up six branch offices around the country...
...March 5), U.S. Navy advisers began reassessing things. The Vungro ship carried 100 tons of Viet Cong cargo, ranging from medical supplies to heavy artillery, and nobody knew how many other ships had made it in to the coast. With continued air interdiction of North Viet Nam's overland supply routes to the south, the Communists just might be shifting a considerable portion to sea -where there is vast opportunity for concealment...
...Technical Cooperation Department, has set Sudene a private investment goal of $55 million for 1965-and he is well on his way. Around Recife, where new skyscrapers jostle ancient slums, Italy's Pirelli plans to build a big, new electric-cable factory, and Willys-Overland do Brasil is busy on the Northeast's first auto-assembly plant. In seven of the states, work is under way on 1,000 miles of new roads that will help nordestinos bring in the goods they need and get their own products out to a larger market. Fifty-seven cities and towns...