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...private company recently got a $1,400,000 loan to begin transforming 16,000 desert acres into farmland. Other loans have gone for a synthetic rubber plant in Brazil, a wood pulp mill in Colombia, fruit processing in Argentina, textile mill expansion in Paraguay, and plants to process timber into chip board for construction in Chile and Argentina...
...viewer to "watch now the inexplicable wrestling match between two men . . . Don't worry about the reasons for this fight but make yourself share in the human stakes." The advice is well-taken, because the reasons for the struggle seem decidedly artificial from the start. Shlink a Chinese timber dealer, purposely provokes a fatal quarrel with George Garga, an employee in a moth-eaten lending library. When Garga refuses to sell his opinion of a book to Shlink and his three thugs, the Chinaman concludes that he is a man of spirit an man worthy of his enmity. Garga takes...
...site of a brewhouse that may have slaked the thirst of Henry VIII, Speculator George Downing built a row of houses whose shallow timber foundations sank readily into the squishy soil of what had once been an island. What remains of Downing's houses on his narrow street across from government offices at Whitehall are Nos. 10, 11 and 12, all interconnected to make a warren of 200 rooms...
...source of African unrest has been the extravagance and economic naivete of some of its new leaders. The Brazzaville Congo's Abbe Fulbert Youlou, a Roman Catholic priest turned President, ordered mauve cassocks from Dior, quaffed champagne and built himself a luxury hotel. Meanwhile, his country's timber-based economy fell victim to dry rot. Crowds of New Class labor union members, with the aid of the army, politically defrocked him last August. A similar fate befell Dahomey's President Hubert Maga, who built himself a $3,000,000 palace and shrugged off charges of "squandermania" until...
...pleased by a warm reception two weeks ago, said she hoped to return to campaign shortly before the election on March 10. And longtime loser Harold Stassen of Philadelphia managed to add a little something to the campaign by running newspaper ads claiming that "in our forest of presidential timber, Harold Stassen is the tallest tree...