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Corruptible Wealth. By this time, Dominique had another devoted admirer, the architect and industrialist Paul Walter, whose revenues from the vast Zellidja lead and zinc mines in Morocco at one time represented 10% of the entire foreign revenue of France. They were married in 1941. A tall, tough, humorous man, Paul Walter had both ideas and imagination. He gave away millions of francs, endowed hospitals from Paris to Istanbul, established the Zellidja Foundation, which offered tiny cash grants to young students on their pledge to travel widely and live by their wits (TIME, Dec. 1). He also had -with apparent...
...hair and laid blisters on the scalp, and on the soles of his feet they applied plasters of pitch and pigeon dung. To remove the humors from his brain they blew hellebores up his nostrils and set him sneezing. To make him sick they poured antimony and sulphate of zinc down his throat. To clear his bowels they gave him strong purgatives and a brisk succession of clysters. To allay his convulsions they gave him spirit of human skull...
Living by Wits. Walter's wandering paid off, he became a distinguished architect and a shrewd and lucky purchaser of mining properties. Twenty years ago, to celebrate his acquisition of an enormously profitable lead and zinc mine at Zellidja, Morocco, Walter began passing out some of the world's least lavish and most demanding scholarships. Each year, 300 young lycée graduates (average age: 18½) get $70 each, and certificates explaining their mission. Then the Zellidja scholars are thrust off to begin research projects, pledged not to use any money except the $70 stipend. They...
Added Grace: "The recent slap at Mexico and Peru in the form of lead and zinc quotas should never have occurred. Political pressure from three mountain states should not have been permitted to strike down our relations with 175 million Latin Americans and damage their faith in us. Can we regain our position in Latin America? For our mutual survival, we must...
Like the rest of Canada, B.C. had its share of recession this year. Capital spending for major pipelines, newsprint mills and hydroelectric projects tapered off last year; markets softened for lead, zinc and aluminum. Yet, typically, British Columbians spoke of the recession as "the poorest boom in years." The province's salmon fishermen had their best season in decades, and farmers, loggers and production-line workers were making-and spending-enough to keep income and retail sales at record levels...