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...known to contain gigantic amounts of petroleum, but up to now the cost of extracting it has not been justified by the price. Some of the Sisters have moved heavily into metals, a field in which their geologists have considerable expertise. Shell produced and sold $1.2 billion worth of aluminum, copper, zinc and nickel last year, enough to rank it among the top 100 firms on the FORTUNE 500 index even...
DIED. Edward Durell Stone, 76, world-famous architect whose 1954 design for the U.S. embassy in New Delhi epitomized the highly embellished style of his later years; after a brief illness, in New York. Touring Europe in 1927, Stone had his first look at the stark glass and aluminum "international style" that he would use in his 1937 design for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. But years later, after his El Panama Hotel in Panama City was built in 1949, Stone denounced his austere designs as resembling "the latest model automobile, doomed to early obsolescence." Aiming at what...
Beneath that obdurate, aluminum exterior beat two 12-volt automobile batteries, 15 electric motors, 35 relays and hundreds of solid-state integrated circuits. Arok has a motorcycle helmet for a skull, a rubber Frankenstein mask for a face, clothes-dryer exhaust hoses for arms, rubber gloves for hands and a firm, manly handshake. He is remote-controlled by FM radio signals (there is a microphone in his control panel and a speaker in his head). Skora, in fact, had to apply for an FCC license to ensure that commands to Arok would not be competing with Led Zeppelin...
...regulatory battle, over a proposal by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to lower the level of cotton dust in mills?a proposal Carter's economic advisers considered too costly?the President gave in to the regulators. The Administration has won a few mostly symbolic pledges from some steel, aluminum-and automakers to limit price rises and executive salary increases. More dangerously, labor has refused to promise wage restraint. Meany calls Bosworth, a prune pleader for a wage hold-down, "that skinny redheaded...
...Title VI. Wrote Judge A. Andrew Hauk: "Affirmative action and goals are permissible; race quotas are not. It is as simple as that." Suits have also been brought challenging the federal program that establishes goals for employment of minorities by federal contractors. In the case of Weber vs. Kaiser Aluminum, an applicant sued Kaiser and his union for excluding him from a job-training program in which half the openings were reserved for minorities. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Weber's favor...