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...Houston's growth has not been good to everyone. In fact, like a promoter for "Dare-To-Be-Great," the city has been annexing land faster than it can provide services for the people who live there. The city that is one of the nation's wealthiest also harbors some of the country's worst poverty pockets. Several Houston communities are even without such basics as sewers and running water. And, not surprisingly, most of these neighborhoods are black, Mexican-American, or poor white...
...couple should not lack for cash. The Queen, reputed to be one of the world's wealthiest women, will no doubt provide a dazzling dowry. In addition, Anne, as the fourth in line to the British crown, will get a huge increase in her state allowance upon her marriage -a point that gave Britain's Communist daily an excuse for its lèse-majesté coverage of the engagement. While most of the British press ran streams of type (530 column inches in the Daily Express), the London Morning Star carried two curt sentences: "Princess Anne will...
...pages long and features more than 140 color photographs and 20,000 words of text. It depicts the history of Israel from its early days as an in hospitable stretch of sand on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean to its growth into one of the wealthiest, most militarily powerful nations in the Middle East. The issue examines the Israeli people and their lifestyles, their heritage and their hopes for the future. Assembled by a score of former LIFE staff members, it contains no advertising and sells for $ 1 .50. It is the first of many single-subject issues that...
...endowment is the enormous mass of stocks, bonds and miscellaneous holdings that Harvard currently owns. The endowment's total market value, or amount of money that Harvard could get if it sold all of its investments, currently amounts to over $1.4 billion, making Harvard the wealthiest university in the world. (This amount of course, does not include the value of the campus's real estate, buildings, or other facilities not currently earning a profit...
This is the new Siberia, an eastern El Dorado whose riches promise to make the Soviet Union of the 21st century the wealthiest nation on earth. Since the first oil well gushed forth in Tyumen province in 1960, Siberia has been found to contain the largest gas and oil reserves of any country in the world. Almost every day brings new discoveries. Geological maps are outdated as soon as they are printed. Scientists now believe that the entire region, equivalent in size to all of North America, is like a giant raft floating...