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Black is a native of Atlanta, Ga., and a graduate of the University of Georgia. The choice of a non-Harvard alum nus to direct the fund drive is consistent with the Library Corporation's policy of making the Library a national, not a Harvard, undertaking...
...North American Coal Corp. is building a million dollar plant at Powhatan Point, Ohio, to use another Strategic Materials process to recover 40,000 tons of aluminum sulphate (alum) a year from coal wastes...
...honking autos and a torrent of heedless jaywalkers. Lagos' open-air market is a constant melee: picking their way through tall piles of blinding indigo or scarlet cloth, vast platters of red peppers on bright green leaves, and mounds of white salt, hordes of shrieking women peddle alum, alarm clocks, Hershey bars, live chickens, hair tonic-all from overloaded trays atop their heads...
...graciousness is under pressure, she soon discovers. Her father, silver-haired Preston Woodcock III. is juggling martinis instead of balancing the family paper company's books. Her mother is outwardly butter-smooth, inwardly alum-bitter. Her cousin Woody is an effeminate dandy swooning before his hi-fi set, while sister Peggy is briskly infighting for some stock proxies to oust another cousin who "robbed us of damned near every red cent we own!" The Adam in this snaky Garden of Eden is Peggy's husband Barney Callahan. a morosely charming outlander (Massachusetts Irish) who convinces the troubled Barbara...
...boiling up several hundred sows' ears into "glue" resembling a silkworm's glandular secretion, adding acetone to make jelly, filtering and spinning under high pressure into fine "threads" hardened with chrome alum and formaldehyde, weaving on a hand loom...