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...uranium boom on the Colorado Plateau has spawned another crop of big rich, led by Vernon Pick, who sold his uranium mine to Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. for $9,000,000 (75% of which Pick kept under capital gains), and Charles Steen, whose Utex Exploration Co. (90% owned by Steen) has an estimated $150 million worth of uranium underground. Hollywood's high-paid stars, who by tradition blow their wealth on caviar and Cadillacs, have also learned how to join the ranks of the new millionaires. Bing Crosby, for example, was able to buy 20,000 shares...
...windswept plateau of La Mancha, where Don Quixote once tilted with windmills, a man from the Spanish S.P.C.A. last week came upon a midget sitting beside his dog in an empty lot outside the town of Manzanares. The midget was guarding all that remained of a once great German circus that got stranded at Manzanares almost 14 months...
Director Richard Brooks has played every scene at such a high plateau of emotions that the major ones can hardly be distinguished from the minor. Van Johnson, well-known for his engaging smile, is admirably miscast as a struggling writer. All he can do is screw up his face a little more as each scene reaches new heights of emotional seriousness. By the grand climactic scene, when he goes to his dead wife's sister to plead for the return of his baby girl, the grimace has reached Hallowe'en proportions. "I gotta have 'er back," he pleads, "because...
URANIUM STRIKE on the Colorado Plateau may turn the nation's biggest gold producer into a uranium miner. Homestake Mining Co., which produced $18 million worth of gold last year and has spent $500,000 looking for uranium, has discovered a rich deposit at the end of a 3,200-ft. tunnel driven underground next to Millionaire Geologist Charles Steen's fabulous Mi Vida mine...
...Montreal last week, members of the American Statistical Association met to size up the economic future. The consensus of the delegates was that a mild business upswing will soon take place. Declared Chief Economist Martin Gainsbrugh of the National Industrial Conference Board: "The current plateau in business activity is not the prologue to stagnation, but rather a promising first act in the American drama of further sustained expansion...