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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mozambique itself will absorb a growing amount of electric power: the dam will be the cornerstone of a vast development scheme designed to transform the wilderness, which is infested with tsetse flies and mosquitoes, into what the Portuguese like to think will become the Ruhr of Africa. Among the area's natural resources are known reserves of nickel, copper and asbestos, plus a twelve-mile-long seam of coal and iron deposits that could produce an annual 1,000,000 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Taming the Zambezi | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...refreshing mid-city and even mid-traffic. Limited areas of ground cover like pachysandra, evergreens like taxus, juniper, euonymus and holly, attractive, spare trees like birch, dogwood and Japanese cherry, and protable planters with shurbs and annuals make up a rich vocabulary a landscape architect could choose from to transform Brattle Square...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: Brattle Square | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...Transforming the Clerks. "We have been trying to broaden our business," says Managing Director Erich Vierhub, 66, "and now we are harvesting the first successes." One of Vierhub's main aims is to "transform staid bank clerks into money salesmen"-a formula that works at home as well as abroad. One of the Dresdner's mutual funds, Concentra, has grown into the country's second largest (assets: $226 million). From its coequal headquarters in the cities of Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Hamburg, the bank has opened 650 branches across West Germany, adds new ones at the rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investment: Marks for the Market | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...blaring, are the heart of the medium. The Beatles and Dylan succeed in spite of (and not because of) the fact that we will never get to hear them in the stark pulsating flesh. The power of the new music is precisely that it is sometimes able to transform a particular event into a permanent influence--one to blunt the hard edges that each of us carefully cultivates...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Earth Opera | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

...resign, although neither course seems very likely at the moment. He probably believes that time is his best ally. He wants to change his image, move away from the Americans, and mold a thoroughly nationalist look designed to appeal to the masses and the younger generation; in short, to transform the flashy, daredevil flyboy into a sort of Uncle Nguyen-an antiCommunist, anti-Western and South Vietnamese patriot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Creation of Uncle Nguyen | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

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