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Rising to challenge aluminum's Big Three have come a trio of fast-moving smaller producers, who now hold 13% of the market: Anaconda Aluminum, Harvey Aluminum and Ormet Corp., a subsidiary of Olin Mathieson. At the same time, the plastics industry has developed new products to compete with aluminum in pleasure boats, packaging and auto trim. And steel has started to offset aluminum's inroads by bringing out lighter, tougher and cheaper alloys and tin plates...
...power from Bonneville Dam and Stratmat's smelting process-to retrieve iron, copper and zinc from waste copper slag cast off by copper companies. A Webb & Knapp subsidiary, in which Stratmat is to have a minority interest, plans to build a mill in Montana and buy slag from Anaconda Co. at 25? a ton. The slag heap contains iron, copper and zinc ores worth an estimated $1.4 billion. Zeckendorf even hopes to sell his leftover steel slag to go into the concrete of the Government's proposed Libby Dam in Montana...
Room 455 at Hoover High School in Glendale, Calif, contains a red-tailed hawk that eats horsemeat, a sinister 8-ft. anaconda, hordes of white rats, a map of every ant colony in the vicinity and George Cassell, 28, an exuberant young man who grew up at the foot of Mt. Shasta with a trout rod in his hand, football on his mind and no thought of study. As it turned, out, he was destined to make Room 455 just about the most popular teen-age hangout in Glendale. Since he teaches biology-one of the deadlier subjects...
...away in Helena. Mont., another Liberty (or Justice, for no one seems to be quite sure) has also had her experiences. About 20 years ago she blew over on her side, and when she was stood upright again, the Montana secretary of state-an avowed enemy of Anaconda Copper-took the occasion to have her copper coating changed to aluminum. This caused quite a bit of talk for a while, until politically powerful Anaconda paid for having her tan restored...
INVESTMENTS IN CHILE of $250 million over next four years are being planned by Anaconda and Kennecott copper companies. Since copper production helps finance government's expenses, the money will aid in restoring Chile's earthquake-damaged economy...