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...another with stick and skate, Madison Square Garden last week became a colossal art gallery. The most massive exhibition of U.S. painting and sculpture in decades-more than 1,500 works from 40 states and Hawaii-lined 4,200 running feet of plywood panels and sprawled over 40,000 sq. ft. of space in the Garden's basement Exposition Hall. The all-encompassing title of the show: "Art: U.S.A...
...Mattei, was E.N.I.'s complete exclusion from Libya, where more than a dozen British, French and U.S. oil companies are engaged in a hard-driving search for oil. As Mattei told it, the Libyan government had suddenly reneged on a tentative agreement to give him a 17,000-sq.-mi. concession in the Libyan desert, instead gave the concession to American Overseas Petroleum, a jointly owned subsidiary of Texas Co. and Standard Oil of California...
...some 600,000 metric tons of oil a year in Egypt; others are exploring in Somaliland, negotiating in Morocco. The climax of Mattel's Middle East drive came last September, when, in return for a promise of 75% of profits,* the Iranian government gave him a 12,000-sq.-mi. exploratory concession, more than half of which lies just south of the highly productive Qum fields...
...question: "Can this place also make pills?" Striding through the well-lighted, air-conditioned plant, with its white walls and precisely placed blue machines (white and blue are Stuart Co.'s colors), he found a more than satisfactory answer. With an elliptical swimming pool and 30,000 sq. ft. of gold-roofed, pagoda-like recreation shelter in the form of a hyperbolic paraboloid to be finished in two months, Pillmaker Hanisch has a building that combines beauty, efficiency, and the atmosphere of a country club...
...comparison with most of the world's developed nations, the U.S. is sparsely populated. Reported the Bureau of the Census last week: the U.S. population of about 172 million covers the 3,000,000 sq. mi. of land at the factor of 57 people per sq. mi. Libya (estimated 1955 pop. 1,105,000), with about two people for each of 679,360 sq. mi., is at the bottom of the list, and the U.S.S.R., biggest in land area (8,600,000 sq. mi.), has an estimated (1956) population of 200,200,000, or 23 people per sq...