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...Ludwig's most intriguing ventures is little known outside his 34th-floor offices in Manhattan's Burlington House. In 1967 Ludwig paid $3 million to a group of Brazilian families for a 4,650-sq.-mi. swatch of rain forest in Brazil's remote Amazon region. He then set in motion a bold plan for developing the tract, which is almost the size of the state of Connecticut, to help meet the future world shortages of food, lumber, and wood pulp for papermaking that he expects. Although the crisis has not appeared?at least not yet?Ludwig has quietly...
...recorded anywhere since 1964, when a quake registering 8.4 hit Alaska. The first tremor was followed 16 hours later by a second shock, which measured 7.9. The two quakes ripped the earth, crumpled dams and toppled buildings across one of China's most populous regions (see map), a swatch of Hopei province bordering the Gulf of Po Hai and encompassing not only Peking and its 7.5 million inhabitants but also China's third largest city, Tientsin (pop. 4.3 million), and Tangshan (pop. 1 million), an industrial and mining center. China's government publicly admitted only "great losses...
Fearing Amin. Indeed, Kenyans have been jittery about their western neighbor since February, when Amin suddenly claimed a large slice of their country-along'with a big swatch of southern Sudan-on the basis of some 19th century colonial maps that showed them to be Ugandan territory. Fearing that Amin was concocting an excuse that could be a first step toward obtaining an Indian Ocean outlet for his landlocked state, Kenyans reacted with officially encouraged hysteria. Rallies throughout the country vilified Amin; one group of villagers even offered a $120,000 reward for Amin's head-literally...
Until a goodly swatch of Forman's writing is actually published, that assertion lacks underpinning. What Rowse does show beyond question is that Forman was an invaluable eyewitness to his superstitious yet brilliant era. Born in 1552, the self-educated country bumpkin who set up shop in London as an astrologer and unlicensed doctor soon became a kind of lay analyst to a cross-section of his society. Titled ladies, including the Countess of Essex and Somerset, consulted him. So did churchmen, merchants, seafarers, servants and prostitutes. A grandson of Thomas More was one of his clients, as were...
...breezy day near Torrey Pines, Calif., the air over the beach and cliffs is filled with man-made wings. A ten-year-old boy strapped to a purple and gold hang-glider-a huge swatch of fabric, a metal frame, a trapeze-like seat -leaps from a cliff and circles toward the sand. A middle-aged businessman in a stiletto-winged sailplane, or conventional glider, weaves figure eights. They have plenty of company aloft, flying a variety of craft that come in a rainbow of colors...