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...wealthiest (at least $700 million) U.S. citizen, reviewed some recently accrued slings and arrows from his outrageous fortune as publicized by FORTUNE. At a private audience in London's Ritz Hotel, Getty told the New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Art Buchwald: "The news about being the richest man in America came to me as a surprise. My bankers kept telling me for the last ten years that it was so, but I was hoping I wouldn't be found out. [Now] it looks like I'll have to change my name if I expect...
Kaese imagined Harvard, the nation's richest University, as a football giant, with the best players and coaches in its hire. Team members could atempt to get an education on the side, of course. But ideally, studies would not be allowed to interfere with the main object: producing the best of all possible football teams...
...uranium men, who saw as their only incentive a present-day market for their ores. Many of the small-time uranium miners who do not have contracts to sell to existing mills will fold up altogether. Such a fallout could peril future U.S. uranium supply, since some of the richest U.S. uranium lodes have been discovered by the small timers who were willing to search in the most improbable places. Said Albuquerque's E. P. Chapman Jr., one of the Southwest's top mining engineers: "The new policy kills all further exploration and development by people...
With their production of concentrate limited, even the big integrated producers were planning to cut back the costly ore search. Anaconda Copper Mining Co., which operates the richest U.S. mine near New Mexico's Ambrosia Lake region (TIME, Sept. 30), set a course that probably will be followed by other industry leaders. Said President Clyde Weed: "We will keep on exploring, but at a slower rate. We will spend less money on development. If we find good deposits, we will sit on them until the demand picks...
This effect is achieved by rather obvious techniques. Exeter is one of America's oldest and richest prep schools, this year celebrating its 175th anniversary with the successful completion of a fund drive which gives it a per student endowment comparable to Harvard...