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...make it one of the world's richest mineral storehouses. At the southern tip of the sea, near the spot where Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt, Israel is using nature's largesse for an economic boom that is revitalizing the town of Sodom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Progress in Sodom | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...pushing production of bromides and bromine, already ranks as one of the world's top five producers. Natural gas fields, recently discovered in the area, are being tapped and phosphate production sharply increased with loans from the Export-Import Bank. Last week a new plant opened in Sodom to refine table salt-95% of which will be exported to salt-starved Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Progress in Sodom | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

Much of this activity is the work of one man, Mordecai Makleff, 43, who took over Israel's government-owned Dead Sea Works in 1955, when the neighborhood around Sodom enjoyed a reputation hardly better than when the angels visited Lot. The Works suffered from incompetent management and low morale, and the town, with a population of 1,400, was full of prostitution and hashish addiction. Makleff, who had been made chief of staff of the Israeli armed forces at 32 because of his skill at organization and administration, quickly cleaned up Sodom. He fired most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Progress in Sodom | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...Sodom area still has its peculiar working hazards: curious camels often make it difficult for planes to land on its airstrip, and a helicopter stands by to pull careless workers out of the slimy and corroding salt water. But the area now makes a major contribution to Israel's economy, and Makleff intends to increase its output fourfold by 1966. "These are the elements that God gave us," he says, "and we intend to use them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Progress in Sodom | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...treatment of Sodom's sins, customers could probably see more sex in the back row balcony than is shown on the screen. Now and then a girl stares fixedly at another girl-but women are forever looking at each other's clothes. Once the handsome villain (Stanley Baker), trying hard to look immoral, nibbles on his sister's finger-but he just looks like a guy who likes to bite other people's nails. Stewart Granger looks a Lot too English, but at least he doesn't have to pronounce the picture's most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gee Whiz & Genesis | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

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