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...first encounter between the two famed, publicity-shy Americans. Jean Paul Getty, 81, probably the richest man in the world, has a personal oil fortune estimated at $4 billion and has lived in England for the past 20 years, seeing only business associates and close friends. Charles Lindbergh, 72, the first man to fly the Atlantic solo, has long avoided public life, emerging only to promote conservation causes. Last week both met with TIME Correspondent William McWhirter. The occasion: Getty had just endowed a $50,000 prize through the World Wildlife Fund, for outstanding service to conservation. The place: Getty...
...vocabulary. And it will not seem too paradoxical--not, at least, to a reader of Nabokov--to say that a non-bogus, paraphrased, uncolorfully detailed Nabokov told me last summer on his Montreux veranda that he had always emphasized his status as an American writer because America has the richest vocabulary in history, graced with an unparalleled number of technical terms and vigorous, constantly changing slang. Even its cliches are at the highest level. That is why, in Nabokov's opinion, the best writing in progress today is being done by Americans...
...tongue. Those who live on the French side of the border are poor agricultural people, and many of them have been moving to Paris, Bordeaux and other cities. But the four Basque provinces of Spain (Vizcaya, Álava, Guipúzcoa and Navarra) are among the country's richest. Through the centuries many Basques have gone out into the world and achieved greatness. Among them: St. Francis Xavier and St. Ignatius of Loyola, Philosopher Miguel Unamuno and South American Revolutionary Hero...
...turbulent waters of the North Sea, which has proven deposits of more than 12 billion bbl., v. 10 billion on Alaska's North Slope. Production has barely begun, but the fields are scheduled to be pumping 2.5 million bbl. a day by 1980. Britain, which controls the richest fields, expects to become a net exporter of oil by the mid-1980s (although the country is starting a drastic austerity program now). Norway's North Sea holdings are also large, and it is determined to squeeze out every benefit it can get, including big royalty demands from oil companies...
...Dutch and the British--Shell, 11 American companies, and a French concern all have minor interests. The most important of these cartels is Aramco, formed by Standard Oil of New Jersey, Mobil, Standard Oil of California, and Texaco in partnership with the Saudi Arabian government, which controls the richest oil deposits in the world...