Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barely two years old, Ghana is one of those raw, resource-rich republics that yearn to leap into a modern economy. Last week, in a prime example of how private enterprise can help a developing country get set for such a bold jump, the Kaiser Industries Corp. circulated an ambitious (3 Ibs.) blueprint for building a major aluminum industry from Ghana's two abundant, untapped resources: red bauxite (aluminum ore) and cheap water power. So enthusiastic was Ghana that it started work immediately on the $600 million project. To Kaiser went the first contract-$3,000,000 for site...
...last, the adventurers in the jungle town of Cuchazu have struck it rich-diamonds, diamonds, diamonds. But they never cash in. The government steps in and takes over the diggings for the state. Troops arrive to make the decree stick, and the hard-drinking prospectors, dregs of all nations, begin to talk about a revolt. When the posturing troop commander decides to execute one of his corporals for picking up some gems, a nightmarish wave of violence washes over the filthy mining town. Six people escape, board a small native boat and head into the jungle. One is a priest...
Since the resignation of Daniel Catton Rich last year, the Chicago Institute has been run by Acting Director Allan McNab, with a powerful assist from strong-minded Katherine Kuh, curator of paintings and sculpture. McNab will stay on as director of administration (staff: 405), thus freeing Maxon for matters of art. A bachelor, Maxon was born in Salt Lake City, trained at Manhattan's Cooper Union Art School and the University of Michigan, took his doctorate at Harvard...
Fair Fare? Chalk pocketed enough in these deals to live in splendor. His twelve-room Fifth Avenue apartment is rich with a Rouault, a Dufy, two Renoirs, two Vlamincks; his Washington office is studded with hi-fi and Queen Anne furniture. Chalk commutes between the two places in his telephone-equipped cars (black Cadillac, white Continental), on off hours retires to his 83-ft., twin-diesel yacht. A careful dresser, he owns 70 suits (most made in Europe for upwards of $200 each) and 30 pairs of shoes (most made in Paris for $75 a pair), sports vests with lapels...
...moving "Walk as Children of Light," and the virtuosic "Sing unto Him." Throughout the piece, Thompson demonstrates his absolute command of the choral idiom, and ability to produce a variety of effects without lapsing into mere showiness. His cadences perhaps lean too heavily on the received value of a rich pianissimo close, but, for the most part he does not substitute sound effects for more serious and difficult musical tasks, but uses the double chorus as one more element of depth in the composition...