Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montesi case would not die, as pretty Wilma Montesi herself had died, obscurely on an Ostia beach 13 miles southwest of Rome (TIME, Feb. 15). At first her death was dismissed as accidental drowning, then came hints of murder. Suddenly sparked by a criminal libel suit, a vast scandal flared up, involving sex, narcotics, and playboys with high connections. The trial produced lurid accounts of the ringleader, one Ugo Montagna, whose claim to be a Sicilian marquis proved to be bogus but whose talent in another direction was undeniable: despite his luxurious way of life, he paid little income...
Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odlum was in Buenos Aires for the second time. On his first trip, in June, he had proposed only to produce crude oil at Neuquen, 600 miles southwest of Buenos Aires and to build a pipeline to get it out (TIME, June 14). Peron approved, but nationalistic politicians and army officers raised the old cry of foreign exploitation. Odium countered by dressing up his deal with a plan that combines the oil project, an investment company that would put the blocked pesos of U.S. companies to work and-most glitteringly-atomic energy. Under this proposal...
...lasted only eight years, possibly, friends say, because even in its happiest days Alicia was still closer to her father than to her husband. Wherever he went-to visit Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, to roam New York's subways or to inspect the drought areas of the Southwest-she went along. Childless, and with little to occupy her but New York's fast social life, she regularly did the rounds of raucous nightclubs and the more discreet Park Avenue and Long Island parties...
...Paris Stock Exchange six months ago, shares in Esso Standard of France were selling for $27. Last week the same shares had risen to $160. Reason for the sixfold increase: Esso France had struck a rich oil field southwest of Bordeaux. It was the first major oil discovery in French history, and crude production from Esso France's first two producing wells is already up to 5,400 bbls. a day, v. 7,000 bbls. from all other wells in France...
...Landes. In exchange, the company agreed to give the French government 10% of the stock in any exploitation company. The venture started inauspiciously. The first well 30 miles south of Bordeaux was dry. Then the rig was moved to the village of Parentis (pop. 998), about 44 miles southwest of Bordeaux...