Word: projects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jari officials have recently moved to open up the project to outside visitors, especially Brazilians. But Ludwig himself determinedly maintains his cherished privacy. Unannounced, he slips in and out of Brazil on regularly scheduled commercial flights, riding tourist class...
...there is more to Ludwig's Brazilian venture than just trees. Jari has diked, drained, leveled, and planted in rice 5,000 acres of swampy land along the Amazon riverbanks. In September the company had its first rice harvest. On the rice project alone, Ludwig has spent more than $20 million for the three airplanes that do the seeding and fertilizing, a fleet of 26 rice harvesters, and a drying and storage facility. By 1982 Jari will have 35,000 acres of rice under cultivation. Single crop yields are roughly the same as in Arkansas and Missouri?about 2� tons...
Untrue Rumors. The Brazilian government has long pursued its own plans to colonize and develop the Amazon, so far with disappointing results. In a way, Ludwig's project is the realization of this old Brazilian ambition. Yet Jari has picked up an unjustifiedly distasteful reputation in Brazil. Because of Ludwig's passion for secrecy, abetted by Jari's remote location, untrue stories of slave laborers living in hovels have regularly appeared in the Brazilian press. In fact, while they are occasionally exploited by contractors, the migrant workers who make up about two-thirds of Jari's work force frequently return...
When he is at the project, he stays in an ordinary room at a modest guest house in Monte Dourado and stomps about wearing 25-year-old gray trousers and an even more ancient pair of black dress shoes. He visits congenially with his employees and their families, talking about the future with the energy of a man half his age. Says Volker Eisenlohr, the German-born manager of the kaolin project: "When I first met him 13 years ago, he said, 'Go fast, I only have four years left.' Now he is still saying the same thing." His people...
...flushed by his rise "from roaches to riches." He has 10% of Rocky, which U.A. hopes will gross more than $40 million and a five-picture contract with the studio. He is holding out for a seven-figure deal on his next project, a "great romantic gothic" movie about Edgar Allan Poe. He also wants to star in the upcoming version of Superman. But Marlon Brando, who will play Superman's father, has veto rights on casting. Says Sly: "I hope he doesn't think I do a cheap imitation of him in the love scene with...