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Belaúnde's grand design is to colonize the montana by means of a 20th century version of the Inca highway network that interconnected the old empire. It will be a 3,500-mile span, hugging the eastern slopes of the Andes and connecting with access roads pushing up from Peru's west coast. Belaúnde's engineers are already pushing penetration routes from the coastal town of Pisco to the mountain town of Ayacucho, from Nazca into Cuzco, from Puno down the rugged eastern slope of the Andes into the southern montana. Estimated cost...
...more than a year, Chicago's Pure Oil Co. has been much like the princess of a Norwegian fairy tale: sitting on top of a hill of glass, she watched as a host of suitors tried to negotiate the slippery slope to win her hand. Pure would welcome a corporate marriage, all right: although its sales in the past ten years have risen 64% , to $630 million, gas wars and short supplies of Pure-produced crude have cut earnings to a disappointingly steady $30 million. Plenty of wooers have tried the hill but slipped on Pure's fussy...
...espouse the militant "permanent war" cause of Peking? Could any Russian really be tempted to join an Asian fight-particularly when his Asian rival was encroaching on his own borders? Kosygin was in an embarrassing situation, and he had to salvage what he could. Skidding along a slippery slope but determined to keep the Soviet Union from plunging over the precipice, the Soviet leader slid stolidly forth...
...Both of us are skiers," he says, "and when we learned this farm was for sale right at the base of this ski slope we just couldn't pass up the opportunity to buy land that might never again be for sale...
...Plymouth. Roundtop Mountain will open for business for the first time this year with a 4800-foot double chair and a T-bar. Andree Mead Lawrence, one of America's finest Olympic skiers, will direct the ski school. Mt. Ascutney in Windsor is a new area on the North slope of an extinct volcano with 120 acres of meticulously groomed trails up to 1 1/2 miles in length. Its double chair lift carries 900 skiers an hour on a 4700' ride up a vertical rise, while three T-bar lifts serve the lower slopes for the novice and intermediate skier...