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...card corporations have lately begun to deal in many other businesses. Last week Cities Service began offering travel accident policies to its card holders, as a dozen other card companies already do, and the Southern Railway hopped on the American Express card. Besides charging their travel, tippling, and trencherman's tabs, card holders now can sign for such merchandise as wigs, garden supplies, model railroads and pets...
...fields all day and lies in the woods all night with a big white buck from a neighboring farm. One night her man attempts to escape from his cruel master and is torn to pieces by Chinese bloodhounds. In despair, the heroine flees by a sort of Underground Railway known as "The Mole's Way." To her astonishment, she discovers that a civil war is raging in China; at the end of it, all the slaves are freed...
...behind Lonrho's restless expansion is Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, 46, a 180-lb. six-footer who began his career as a porter in a London railway station, emigrated to Southern Rhodesia in 1948 and built a fortune from a Mercedes franchise and mineral speculation. In 1961 he traded his motor and mining assets for 30% of the stock of Lonrho, became a joint managing director with Chairman Alan Ball. Ever since, he has been flying around Africa in a twin-engine Beechcraft, persuading the established and emerging nations to do business with Lonrho, acquiring such diverse enterprises...
...with Black Africa's economic aspirations, underwritten nationalistic-development schemes. During Malawi's independence celebrations last July, Rowland smiled tolerantly from his dignitary's seat while Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda roared that "all businessmen are crooks." Rowland could afford to smile. Malawi is dependent on railway and lake transportation systems that are controlled by Lonrho...
...plants promised, only a shoe factory and a food processing plant have been built, and the latter is having what is euphemistically described as "operating difficulties." The Soviets blame the Iraqis for procrastination and noncooperation. The Iraqis blame poor Soviet engineering standards, citing as an example the Baghdad-Basra railway-new last April, but so poorly ballasted that it has never been used...