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Sculptor Cousino had done his carving in Italy, and brought the statue to Biarritz under heavy wraps. When the town was all set for the gala unveiling, a municipal councilman peeped under the wrappings and saw a horrifying sight: a bleak marble pyramid capped with the head of an agonizing, sphinxlike woman...
Cord, shorn of power but not of wealth, dropped out of the public eye, quietly began to pyramid his millions in Los Angeles real estate. He is still one of Wall Street's biggest speculators, has a Beverly Hills mansion, three Nevada ranches, a fleet of 20 cars (mostly Cadillacs) and two planes which he usually flies himself. Last week, at 56, Cord was back in the news with an incredible scheme to get control of some of the richest submerged oil wells off Louisiana and California. "Back in the old days," says Cord, "they called some...
Herodotus figured that 100,000 men toiled 20 years in the hot Egyptian sun to build the Great Pyramid of Cheops. Assuming a twelve-hour day and a seven-day week, this works out at 8.7 billion man-hours. The U.S. is now getting ready to put forth every year a defense effort equivalent to five Pyramids of Cheops...
...Pyramid Intact. Author Keith (Land Below the Wind, Three Came Home) got her first peek at Sandakan as a young bride in 1934. Then she had felt the lure "of a country where elephants roamed free, fish flew . . . ladies wore evening dresses every evening, and I had no dishes to do, no clothes or babies to wash...
...conservative Sandakan, the social pyramid was still intact, with 25,000 Chinese, Malays, Indians and natives at the base, 80 Europeans at the top. The only revolutionary the Keiths had to keep tab on was little Georgie Keith, 7. To Mrs. Keith's dismay, he began spouting pidgin English: "Aw, Ma, dey all spik like dat!" "But that's not English you are talking. You must stop." "O.K., Mum. I no talk like dat any more...