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...prospects of a slumping economy and rising taxes in Britain have led many Americans living there to consider packing for home. Now, one of England's richest resident expatriates, Oil Midas J. Paul Getty, 81, has announced plans to leave his 1,050-acre Surrey estate next March and move back to the U.S., where he has not been for some 20 years. Getty plans four weeks of travel by boat and car (he is frightened by flying) that will take him to Malibu, Calif, where he has a 65-acre estate and a newly completed $17 million museum...
Four years ago, geologists for Queensland Mines Ltd. came across a tiny plot of ground in Australia's remote northern Nabarlek region that turned out to be the richest uranium deposit in the world. Assuming that mining rights could easily be obtained from the aboriginal owners, the Australian company quickly signed contracts to sell $60 million worth of ore to Japanese firms. What the mining executives failed to take into account was the aborigines' reluctance to disturb the green ants who live near the site...
Although it is the largest single landowner and the richest locally-based corporation in town, Harvard tries for the most part to keep out of Cambridge's official affairs. All the University's land is, under state law, tax-exempt, but to keep town-gown relations smooth Harvard pays the city about $500,000 a year in in-lieu-of-tax payments. And whenever and wherever the name of Harvard is likely to be mentioned in public, the University sends a representative from its Office of Government and Community Affairs to sit quietly in the back of the room...
...Angola (500,000 whites, 250,000 mestizos, 6 million blacks), a coffee-producing territory on the Atlantic, is the richest of the colonies. Although relations between the races have been relatively good, there were recent riots. The territory has three active liberation movements, all vying for power. Lisbon hopes to form a coalition government that includes members of all three as well as the European population...
First came the shocking disclosure in the Omaha Sun papers two years ago that Father Flanagan's ragtag "city of little men" was probably the richest incorporated village in the U.S., with a per boy wealth of close to $300,000. Assiduous fund raising and sound investing had built its endowment to $209 million; money was literally coming in faster than it could be spent. Unlike the endearing statue out front, Boys Town was finding its burden-wealth-embarrassingly heavy...