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...such noises shattered the sleep of the pioneers a century or more ago. But the tire screech of a hard-braked auto mobile is probably no more disturbing than the howl of a timber wolf rallying the pack. And no American today need lie awake worrying whether the soft fluting of a small owl is really the signal that a band of Indians is closing in for a scalping spree...
...United States Forest Service selected the Harvard students for the rescue attempt because of their extensive experience in climbing above the timber line in cold weather and their familiarity with the White Mountain area. The three undergraduates had made a similar trek with the Mountaineering Club last week...
...from branches around the world. But in London, 17 smaller merchant banks, most of them family-dominated, rank as "The Princes of the City." The biggest of the tight-mouthed princes, who ignore common customers for corporations and countries, is Hambros Bank, Ltd., which has arranged financing for Scandinavian timber, South African diamonds and $20 million worth of Manhattan's Pan Am Building. In a move symbolic of the new direction that London's princely bankers are now taking, Hambros has just announced that in partnership with the U.S.'s Meyers Bros. Parking System it will build...
...Liberia was one of Africa's three independent states and had a budget of scarcely $1,000,000 a year. But today Liberia's budget is some $38 million annually, and its gross national product runs to about $250 million, derived from rubber, iron ore, and vast timber riches that are only beginning to be farmed. As Tubman exchanged visits with the leaders of new African states, the 80-year-old mansion seemed inadequate and embarrassing...
...their most ambitious project, the British Rothschilds put together a consortium to tap the timber, minerals and hydro power of a 53,000-sq.-mi. area in Newfoundland. Next spring the British Newfoundland Corp., with both the British and the French Rothschilds represented, will begin a $1 billion, seven-year job to dam Hamilton Falls and harness its 6,000,000 h.p. It will be the world's biggest hydroelectric development, and Sir Winston Churchill has called the whole project "a grand imperial concept...