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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Transmission) signed up on a similar profit-sharing basis for a minimum investment of $126 million.
The Gamble. The Comodoro Rivadavia field is a dramatic sample of a daring gamble by Frondizi that paid off. Bucking emotional Argentine nationalism, Frondizi last year invented an imaginative patchwork of "service and development" contracts between foreign oil companies and the state monopoly, Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales (YPF). The device has...
Their romance blossomed in 1937, when Héctor, up from the ranks in the seven years of his big brother's rule, was a brigadier general. The engagement was announced, and Hector approached the dictator about setting a wedding date. The strongman's reply: a stern lecture...
Soon after left-wing British Author J. B. Priestley and his archaeologist wife Jacquetta arrived in Australia last month for a ban-the-bomb peace conference, they decided that they did not like being Down Under at all. About to leave Australia last week, J.B. was still smarting about the...
Showing up in Stockholm to get his Nobel Prize for literature (value: $42,601.96), left-leaning Italian Poet Salvatore Quasimodo, 58, sounded more as if he came to be tried rather than honored. He praised the Swedish Academy for its "nonconformist" decision to give him the prize, snarled at those...