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Price supports prop up the farmer and tax write-offs cushion the new businessman. Property owners are reimbursed for wartime losses sustained at the hands of either the Nazis or the Allies, and there are special payments for war widows as well as to refugees from East Germany. "If you were a nursing mother who had fled from the East, lost your fortune and your husband in the war, and had broken your leg," says one government official, "why, you'd be a millionaire...
...roll a few legal dice? Grand Bahama Island, a mere 75 miles off Miami, has been granted a ten-year license for a gambling casino, and now Huntington Hartford, 52, wants similar licenses granted to the rest of the Bahamas, including one small dot named Paradise Island (H. Hartford prop.) just off Nassau. It would solve a lot of problems, he says. First he would immediately build 1,000 first-class hotel rooms on Paradise, thus providing jobs for unemployed Bahamians. Then he would give 50% of the net gambling profit to the government for "improved housing, medical care...
Regardless of which company comes out ahead, the Dutch are bound to gain. Some of the gas will be used to fuel new aluminum and ammonia industries in The Netherlands, and about 15 billion cubic meters will be exported yearly to prop a narrowly unfavorable balance of trade. Gas will also replace the country's meager supply of coal as consumer fuel. As a result of the finds, gas prices for Dutch householders are to be lowered 25% next month...
...altitude of La Paz (pop. 350,000) is 11,900 ft., visitors are warned to get used to the thin air before taking a cocktail or attempting anything so athletic as trotting upstairs. At the airport, 1,400 ft. above the city, no jets come in; Panagra's prop pilots sometimes take a whiff of oxygen during stopovers. Yet 4,000,000 people inhabit Bolivia; 75% are on the altiplano (high plain), a vast, barren Andean plateau averaging 12,000 ft. in altitude. Of the 75%, a few tin miners produce the nation's major export; the rest...
...scrum's front row Phil Hitch will fill in the slot as hooker and at left prop will be sophomore Bill Bunting playing his third game of the season. Rick Swanson, periodically in and out of the first team, will play right prop. Ed Quattiebaum returns to the second row Saturday after as ankle injury. Freshman Bill Marsluff at scrumhalf will be an asset for several years and should certainly play first string next fall...