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...Plough, 81, made $39 million on paper last year; his 3% stock ownership in the drugmaking Schering-Plough Corp. rose to a year-end total of $105 million. Plough started in business at the age of 16 by borrowing $125 from his father in order to sell "Plough Antiseptic Healing Oil" door-to-door from a wagon in Memphis; 65 years and 29 acquisitions later, he has built a worldwide company that he still actively manages as chairman. Plough's record of fast earnings growth-from $1.43 a share in 1968 to an estimated $2.90 last year-has caught...
...PLOUGH AND THE STARS, by Sean...
opens into the Lotus, Cobra, Plough...
...seen Paree? No problem where Madame de La Tour du Pin was concerned. The Good Old Days did not look all that good to her. She rated Marie Antoinette high on courage, low on intelligence and zero on tact. Louis XVI resembled "some peasant shambling along behind his plough." As for her fellow aristocrats-"laughing and dancing our way to the precipice" -almost all had been "sublimely blind...
From dawn to dusk, the new hand labored in the parched and infertile fields of Dodoma, the most impoverished province of African Tanzania. Uncomplaining, he hacked at the dry soil with a primitive hoe, guided a plough drawn by oxen, picked ears of maize, ate the local diet and slept in a native hut. Julius Nyerere, 48, Tanzania's President, was making an earnest attempt to measure at first hand the depths of his country's need, and to promote Ujaama (community villages), the self-help principle through which he hopes to assist Tanzania in alleviating its poverty...