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...tract near already-producing wells recently skyrocketed from $1 to $30,000 in a single day's trading, and the value of another tract tripled from $25,000 to $75,000 in three days. Since the big oil production started only recently, royalty income-a standard 36.50 per barrel-is just beginning to build up. Nonetheless, the oil boom has stepped up the county's economic activity: bank deposits have increased 20% in the past six months, service-station business has doubled, and restaurants have quadrupled their take...
First came a phalanx of women and children, and behind them the short, silent, barrel-chested men armed with slingshots, rusty rifles, and carrying Tierra o Muerte banners. Once again Peru's restless peasants were trying to chase landowners off their estates. The invasions have been going on for months, and President Fernando Belaúnde Terry has hesitated to intervene. But last week, when 8,000 peasants appeared at 14 haciendas near Cuzco in the southern highlands, troops drove them back in a pitched battle that left 17 dead, 32 wounded on both sides. Within hours, Bela...
Drink up! Sing songs! Shake hands! Everything is barrel-vaulted on St. Simparootievilles...
...fact, the army needs at least 35,000 more fulltime soldiers to meet Britain's obligations-a level it will probably never attain without reintroduction of politically unpalatable conscription. As the London Times despondently observed, "The operation of scraping the bottom of the barrel has run against a predictable difficulty-the bottom of the barrel seems to have disappeared...
Wild Chance. Nothing like science or journalism was in the mind of the young Orthodox Jew who smuggled himself out of Russia in a sauerkraut barrel. He arrived in the U.S. in 1905 with 50? and an unnegotiable name: Yehuda-Leib Siew. This he changed to William Laurence-the surname chosen for the street he lived on in Boston. He taught himself a kind of English by comparing Russian and English versions of Shakespearean plays and practiced on unamused trolley conductors: "Holla, sirrah, wouldst prithee halt...