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...calls "fog creeping through the bridge" pieces; in them he ranges rhapsodically from the hills (he claims there are 30) to the weather (which he says beats sex as the city's "Topic A"). He even manages to extol such dubious assets as the city's sky-high alcoholism rate and the fleas, which, according to Caen, "bite only tourists and newcomers" because the natives are "so full of garlic." At times, Garlic Lover Caen sounds as if he had distilled his high-calorie prose from the Reader's Digest's Picturesque Speech Department. Sample...
...than an "oil man." But Getty proved he was an "oil man" in the Middle East, where he felt he needed reserves to mold an integrated oil empire. In 1949 he bought the oil rights to Saudi Arabia's 50% interest in the Neutral Zone. The price: a sky-high $9,500,000 plus a minimum $1,000,000 a year for three years -against royalties of 55? a bbl. Then Getty pumped $3,000,000 into exploration and development. Not until 1953 did a showing of oil come up from 3,500 ft. to indicate that his gamble...
...been built, and a special concrete blockhouse will shelter observers and testing crew. A greenish-colored gantry has been brought from White Sands Proving Ground to support the pencil-thin vehicle before it roars off toward space. Scientists gathering for the tests claim to be more worried about the sky-high cost of Florida living than about the performance of their hardware. In spite of many objections, the tests will be as secret as if the peaceful satellite were a military missile armed with an H-bomb...
...surprising. Early in the session the Administration had hinted broadly at a bold new program for long-range economic aid, had cited Egypt's Aswan Dam as a prime example of a worthy long-range project; now the Aswan Dam program had blown sky-high in the latest Middle East explosion. Never did the Administration present a coherent world economic policy. In May NATO's retiring commander General Alfred Maxmilian Gruenther testified grimly on the urgent need for arming the U.S.'s NATO allies in Western Europe. Since then there has been semi-official talk in Britain...
...pounds, near the lowest point in a decade and about 50% less than four years ago. Said Jay Taylor, past president of the American National Cattlemen's Association: "Plenty of cattlemen are going broke." Undoubtedly many ranchers who jumped in to make a quick killing when prices were sky-high were being hamstrung. But many veteran cowmen were still making money, although, as a group, ranchers were just about breaking even...