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Just ten years ago it was called the United States of Brazil-a functioning democracy with a representative government patterned on the American model. There, however, comparison with the U.S. ended. Although Brazil was the giant of South America, with about half its 6,888,000-sq.-mi. land mass, it was perennially hamstrung by internal problems. Now much of that has changed. Today Brazil, with a population of 103 million, is the major political and economic influence in South America; moreover its exports are spreading so far beyond the continent's shores that it is being billed...
...bargains, ranking with the legendary purchase of Manhattan for $24, is an obscure contract negotiated in 1933. For a loan of exactly $170,327.50, Saudi Arabia's King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud granted the Standard Oil Co. of California a 60-year, exclusive concession to 320,000 sq. mi. of desert. So huge were the oil reserves when finally discovered, and so large the investment needs, that SoCal could not exploit them alone. It took on co-venturers, forming the Arabian American...
Divine Plan. Gairy claims that he has been chosen by God to lead Grenada's 110,000 people and raise his 133-sq. mi. country to greatness. "God has a divine plan for Grenada," he says. "The plan is self-determination for the people. Nobody can stop it. It has come for the people of Grenada. And I have been appointed to carry out this divine plan." A fortune teller once told him that "a little man shall come from the East." (Gairy was born on the eastern side of the island and is 5 ft. 7 in. tall...
Indeed, overcrowding is a problem on the entire island of Java, where 60% of the nation's population lives (and where the density is 1,500 people per sq. mi.). Accordingly, the government is urging the Javanese to migrate to the less-populous outer islands. A highway is being built through the Sumatran jungle, for example, that will open up vast sections of the big island, which is 1½ times the size of Japan...
...pages) but not exactly sassy. It carries more advertising linage than any other U.S. daily (1973 total: 117,450,860 lines); yet it gives the impression of just falling short of its great potential. Its metropolitan staff of 96 has problems making sense of its turf-4,800 sq. mi. of overlapping municipal governments that constitute a city editor's nightmare...