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Aircraft Manufacturer Marcel Dassault, 85, reputedly the richest man in France, always has been philosophical about the fate of the company he founded. "Nationalization," said Dassault last year, "would not after all be a bad thing. Severe unemployment lies ahead, and with a nationalized company, you can be sure that the state will somehow find a way to maintain the labor force." Dassault was talking about takeover by a left-wing government, should the Socialist-Communist opposition win the parliamentary election scheduled for next spring. Last week, however, a step toward nationalization came early, from a different direction. The government...
...just about saturated the Western European market, and the rate of growth has been leveling off. Now, in an expansionary effort, the company has decided on a bold gamble: beginning in early summer, Perrier will try to crack the U.S. Thus it will take on the world's richest and roughest soft-drink market, which is dominated by such giants as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Seven-Up, not to mention scores of home-grown mineral-water bottlers...
...tallest mountain, the nation's third longest river and, in addition to Alaskan brown bears, the world's largest land carnivores, a glacier the size of Rhode Island. Purchased from Russia in 1867 for a paltry $7.2 million, Alaska also contains some of the country's richest and most extensive mineral deposits. As a result, it has become the center of a classic clash between environmentalists, who want to preserve some of its spectacular and environmentally unique sections for posterity, and developers, who want to exploit the potential riches...
...paintings, 5,000 prints, 7,000 drawings and 20,000 rare books, and it is valued at close to $200 million. It ranges from the bejeweled, beribboned portraits of the Elizabethan period onward to the nobly blooded horses of George Stubbs. Its special strength lies in the richest period of British art, the years between the birth of Hogarth (1697) and the death of Turner (1851). Added to Yale's already strong holdings in 18th century British history and literature, the museum makes New Haven one of the most important centers for British studies outside of England. Yale, understandably...
...Since the birth of the nation, energy and the United States have been almost synonymous terms: metaphorically, in the boundless vitality of the American people; literally, in the seemingly inexhaustible supplies of cheap fuel that made possible the transformation of a handful of impoverished colonies into history's richest nation. Frontier mythmakers celebrated the idea that Americans could summon limitless supplies of energy for whatever needed doing, most notably in the tales about Paul Bunyan, who could harness his ox Babe to straighten out the bends in rivers with a single tug. If Faust, the archetypal European, believed that...