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Indonesia's wealthiest island, Sumatra, is bigger than California; Java has more people than the American Midwest. Mountains march down the spines of both islands, and a hundred volcanoes drift their smoke against the blue tropical sky. Indonesia bursts with resources, from copra and hemp to teak, tobacco and oil. The world's largest flower, rafflesia, with a diameter of 3 ft., blooms on Madura. The red-brown soil of Java (pop. 52,000,000), terraced with unbelievable ingenuity, produces two rice crops a year. The warm seas send long rollers crashing on the palm-fringed shores...
Oilman Jean Paul Getty, 64, not shirking his new fame as the wealthiest (at least $700 million) U.S. citizen, reviewed some recently accrued slings and arrows from his outrageous fortune as publicized by FORTUNE. At a private audience in London's Ritz Hotel, Getty told the New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Art Buchwald: "The news about being the richest man in America came to me as a surprise. My bankers kept telling me for the last ten years that it was so, but I was hoping I wouldn't be found out. [Now] it looks like...
...good enough to play with President Eisenhower") and first-rate bridge. Much sought after by Parisian hostesses. Arrives late to work, leaves the office every night by 9 to dine with the family in his elegant Avenue Foch apartment. (Madame Gaillard, widow of one of France's wealthiest financiers, has two children by her previous marriage, a son by this one.) His chief handicaps: a malicious wit-"Nothing outside, nothing inside" was his verdict on a bald colleague-and the widespread feeling that he is a coldly ambitious golden boy "sunk in upper-class surroundings...
...wealthiest man in Europe-and perhaps in the world-rose shortly before 8 one morning this week in a modest ranch-style house overlooking the city of Essen on West Germany's Ruhr River. Tall and spare, with steel-grey eyes and finely cut features, he slipped into a dressing gown and carefully selected an expensively tailored dark business suit from his wardrobe. After shaving, he sat down to his usual solitary breakfast of coffee and a single egg, read newspapers and personal mail as he ate. Though his normally taciturn air and faithfulness to morning routine gave little...
Blakley is a Texastronomically rich man (estimated worth: more than $300 million) and one of the wealthiest ever to sit in the Senate. He amassed his fortune in real estate, ranch land, banking and insurance, built himself a $500,000 home, now is constructing a $125 million, 120-acre shopping center in Dallas, where air-conditioned walkways will link four office buildings, 150 stores and a 1,000-room hotel. Blakley will hold his Senate seat only until an April 2 special election names the heir to the last two years of Daniel's term...