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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exploration contracts have been awarded to eager bidders, among them the U.S.'s Continental and Union Oil companies. Surveying for copper, Freeport Sulphur Co. recently found high-grade (4%) ore, and may invest up to $100 million to exploit it. International Nickel just got the go-ahead to start a $1,500,000 survey of nickel deposits on the island of Sulawesi (Celebes), and may invest $100 million. Bethlehem Steel has expressed interest in tin deposits, Boise Cascade in logging concessions. ITT agreed to build a satellite relay station near Djakarta at a cost...
Long journey always start with one short step...
...Years with Ross was an epitaph that the volatile and volubly profane founder and editor of The New Yorker would himself have pronounced definitive. Jane Grant has one advantage, and only one, that Thurber lacked: she was Ross's first wife (of three) and helped him start The New Yorker. In fact, she says openly what too many wives secretly believe about their husband's successes: "He would have given up, I am sure, if I hadn't encouraged him; fortunately I was able to influence him for he was in love with me." Not even Thurber...
...lady in Dubuque"; it wasn't even for Ross's own mother. Her unreal ized ambition for him was to see something under his byline in the Saturday Evening Post. He was shy, so much so that he had a hard time rustling funds to start The New Yorker. Though he dealt with the best humorists of his time, he was no phrasemaker. This was about his speed: he once asked Alexander Woollcott to describe him, and Woollcott immediately replied: "Timid." Ross's reply was quick and typical: "You sneaky son of a bitch...
...next opponent--The Winnipeg Rowing Club--planned to run away from Harvard at the start and then try to hold on at the finish. The Canadians pulled mightily, but their American adversaries, rowing at a slower pace, would not be shaken...