Word: aluminum
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...copper, zinc and timber, and produces 80% of the non-Communist world's asbestos. Its 450 rivers give it huge reserves of hydropower. Vast hydroelectric projects, like the $16.2 billion James Bay complex now under construction (see map), have made Quebec one of the world's major centers of aluminum production. The province is also a principal Canadian manufacturing center for textiles, garments and shoes, industries that provide 25% of Quebec jobs. With a gross provincial product of $45 billion, Quebec provides 23% of Canada's total G.N.P., second only to neighboring Ontario. If Quebec became independent tomorrow, Lévesque...
Once he barreled across the scrimmage line, all 6 ft. 8 in., 285 lbs. of him, as the crowd chanted: "Kill, Bubba, kill!" But Charles Aaron ("Bubba") Smith, the former defensive left end for the Baltimore Colts, collided with an aluminum yard marker in 1972, suffered a severe knee injury, and was later forced to give up the game. Now, in an unprecedented legal case, Smith, 32, is asking $1.5 million from the N.F.L. in a negligence suit. He claims that officials failed to remove the marker in time when the action flowed toward the sidelines. To help his case...
...Soviets win the battle for the Arctic oil? No one can say for sure. Despite their backwardness and bureaucratic bungling, the Russians have shown remarkable skill and endurance in their present Siberian ventures. They have learned how to insulate rigs against the treacherous thawing tundra and to use aluminum drilling shafts that can be sunk deeper than heavier steel ones. They have developed turbo-drills that, they claim, bore three times as fast as conventional U.S. ones. But despite wages two to three times as high as the national average of $215 a month, workers desert the frozen Siberian expanses...
...mention dangers that Thor Heyerdahl may face on his new voyage because his reed boat will not show up on radar screens [Nov. 28]. It could be made to appear as big as a destroyer on radar screens by simply wrapping a roll of aluminum foil around each of those beautifully crafted hull points used only for aesthetic purposes. The foil could be laid beneath the outer covering of reed to preserve the "purist" intent of Tigris...
...stop selling Coors. In Los Angeles, feminists have joined the boycott to protest the polygraph exams and Joseph Coors' backing of Phyllis Schlafly, the leader of the anti-Equal Rights Amendment forces. The Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women has asked ERA supporters to bring aluminum cans to a Coors recycling center and demand that the company pay for them with checks made out to the local pro-ERA campaign. Chicano boycotters accuse Coors of racial discrimination in hiring, a charge that the company denies...