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This top-snow, along with the two and a half feet already built up should make wildcat, the Little Head Wall, and the Sherman trail a snow bunnies' delight...
...with Wildcats. Labor was only the most immediate of the tremendous problems facing Bermúdez. Pemex had fallen far behind on distributing its oil, and in discovering and developing new fields. On distribution, Bermúdez was hamstrung by the sad state of Mexican railways, but he had schemes to overcome that disability. One top-priority project: an $8,000,000 pipeline to bring natural gas from Poza Rica on the Gulf to Mexico City's industries and households. He also hopes to develop new fields that will give Mexico oil for at least 50 years to come...
...royal* welcome in Moscow from the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS). Out of Mombasa, British East Africa, bound for New York, steamed a merchant ship captained by Jonathan M. Wainwright V, the General's son, whose charges included an ostrich, a wildcat, a ringtailed monkey, four pythons and six hyenas. Across the U.S. on a lecture tour streaked Randolph Churchill, who was having hair-raising luck. While he was doing 50 on an Indiana highway a wheel flew off, but the car somehow remained right side...
...there was also a second objective: to stop wildcat strikes. Said N.F.T.W.'s President Joseph A. Beirne: "It is absolutely necessary that the industry's unions always be aware of their two-fold responsibility to the public as well as their members...
...after five years of secretive, studious preparation, Raffles purchased from Johore's Sultan the rights of "protection" over Singapore island. When the news reached London, months later, the East India Company directors were outraged; they had already lost more money than they could afford in such wildcat schemes of trade expansion. But while they debated what to do, the new city of Singapore sprang almost overnight into what Raffles described as "the emporium and pride of the East." Within a year "it was a common sight to count 20 vessels at one time in the harbor"; nine years later...