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...only after they had established themselves there that they clashed ^ for the first time with fierce Bantu tribesmen moving southward in search of new lands. Border skirmishes lasted for decades, imbuing the Afrikaners with a permanent sense of being threatened, isolated and beleaguered...
...wake of the impressive successes that Canada's richest families have scored in the U.S., growing numbers of smaller investors are expected to look southward as well. Last week the U.S. Government encouraged that trend by sponsoring three "Invest in the U.S.A." seminars in Canada, at which lawyers and accountants dispensed tips on how to get started in business in the U.S. Twenty-five states participated, hoping to lure Canadian investment. In a new version of the old wintertime travel advertisements for Florida aimed at shivering Northerners, the U.S. is telling Canada, "Come on down!" More and more Canadians...
...rarely photographed together. Their rapid-fire conversations in Farsi and French often befuddle English-speaking business peers. But from behind that fog, the four Iranian natives have created one of Canada's biggest and most spectacular real estate baronies and are quickly expanding their razzle-dazzle fiefdom southward. Before long, U.S. consumers will get a full exposure to the revolutionary marketing flair of the Ghermezians, who have combined a Disney-style entertainment vision with their own shrewd merchandising sense to produce the latest in suburban shopping temples, the megamall...
...fighters provided cover, 20 American attack planes roared off the deck of the U.S.S. Forrestal, heading southward across the Mediterranean. The A-6 Intruders and A-7 Corsairs closed quickly on the North African coast and zeroed in on their target: a desert airstrip encircled by tanks and protected by surface-to-air missiles...
Viewed from hip Los Angeles, Orange County has sometimes seemed a quaint appendage sprawling southward down the Pacific Coast, a pleasant afterthought with an odd weakness for white shoes and alarmists of the John Birch Society stripe. To the larger world, the county still summons up images of citrus groves and Disneyland, planned communities and the young Richard Nixon, hard- core conservatism and the late John Wayne. But today Orange County is undergoing a dramatic change, exploding with new wealth. Its economic output has more than tripled in a decade, and its population since 1970 has jumped...