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...highway from Brasilia to the Amazonian city of Belem that was completed in 1960 has opened up hundreds of square miles of virgin land. This fact, coupled with visions of towering skyscrapers rising from the freshly turned red earth, has brought speculators and just plain land seekers flocking from West Germany, Japan, the U.S. and other countries. They have bought up land for as little as 70 an acre from private owners, sometimes reselling it for as much as $2 an acre. Around the Hotel Nacional bar in Brasilia, some speculators regale foreigners with Bunyanesque tales of undiscovered mineral riches...
...Webster, chairman of the Anguilla Island Council, but largely written by Howard Gossage, a San Francisco ad man--promised honorary Anguillian citizenship to Americans who contributed $100 to the fledgling state, and told prospective contributors to send money to "The Anguilla Trust Fund, Chase Manhattan Bank, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands...
...museum also owns one of the top half-dozen Oriental collections in the U.S., a superlative selection of prints and drawings, and an impressive cross section of European paintings from the 15th century to the 17th century, topped off by El Greco's soaring Assumption of the Virgin. The rambling Italian Renaissance palazzo on Michigan Avenue enfolds an art school and the recent (1962) Morton wing for modern...
...titillate a bunch of girdled ladies and hot men, performs a dance in which she and a long-stemmed wine bottle make love. Then when she and her policeman are in church--he's praying and she's seducing him--Metzger cuts from her to a picture of the Virgin Mary. From one idol to another...
...measure the extent and nature of that intelligence, Lilly established his unique Dolphin Point Laboratory in the Virgin Islands, and in this intriguing but eccentric book he describes how he has examined and trained dolphins, recorded and analyzed their voices, lived like them-and even with them. Lilly, a neurophysiologist who has also had training in physics and biophysics, has spent hours underwater in a darkened pool, attempting to understand the sensations experienced by dolphins. He believes that dolphins try to communicate with man by mimicking human voices and he has cooperated in experiments trying to teach dolphins to speak...