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...invaders represented some of the 24 oil companies that are gunning for a share of the world's second largest natural gas deposit (after Texas). The Dutch government conservatively estimates that 1,100 billion cubic meters of gas bubbles under the Waddenzee Islands and the northern provinces. Others reckon that the fields contain five times that amount...
...friends disappeared. Feeble and ailing, he only went to the Capitol to have his hair cut-because the barbers there knew how to cut it just right. A couple of years ago, on one of his last trips to the Hill, he said sadly to an old newsman friend: "Reckon I won't be seeing you any more...
Though stamps have an almost universal appeal to housewives who think that they may be getting something for nothing, Progressive Grocer Magazine figures that the stamps amount to 14% of a retailer's operating costs, second only to his expenses for labor (44%)-and he obviously has to reckon those expenses in setting his prices. The magazine also questioned 12,000 U.S. housewives, concluded that most do not really prefer one store over another because of stamps or contests, but because of polite and helpful clerks...
...wasn't nailed there-any loose thing, any unattached fragment of bone, or meat or morals, or disease or propensities or accomplishments, or what not. And I don't say but that I feel well enough, I feel better than I would if I was dead. I reckon." These words seem appropriate also: "They say they can cure any ailment, and they do seem to do it; but why should a patient come all the way here? Why shouldn't he do these things at home and save the money? No disease would stay with a person...
Some observers reckon that Ludwig would like to fashion a fully integrated oil complex-wellheads, tankers, pumps. Doing things, not basking in the glow of achievement, seems to be his goal. Like Industrialist Howard Hughes, he is usually inaccessible, rarely interviewed, seldom seen even by his lawyer. His off-hours, like any suburbanite's, are invested in fighting the crabgrass on the lawn of his modest home in Darien, Conn., where he lives with his second wife (he has one stepson). Early-morning commuters do not recognize this unobtrusive suburbanite for one of the world's wealthiest...