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...Atlantic City, before 22,000 rapt spectators, an annual rite was performed. After a select group of American beauties had paraded their assets for all to assay, South Carolina's blonde, blue-eyed Marian Ann McKnight, 19 (assets: 35-23-35; dividend: a singing imitation of Marilyn Monroe), was handed a queenly scepter and crowned Miss America of 1957. After sobbing a moment, but not at the thought that her title will net her close to $75,000, the queen threw her head back and said: "Who would have thought this could happen...
...past ten years no art medium in the U.S. has had such a dazzling rise to popularity as the once-neglected art of printmaking. This week two major print annuals give gallerygoers a chance to assay the current crop through a selection of prints that challenge traditional oils and watercolors in both richness of surface and color...
...father. With the money Fred was able to haul 53 tons of ore down the mountain and freight it to the processing plant at Salt Lake City. After three anxious weeks, Fred heard from the AEC. In the envelope were two $6,000 checks and a top-grade assay. Fred's mine was a vein deposit of high-grade uranium ore (only one other major vein deposit-in Marysvale, Utah-is producing...
...best ore of germanium, the scarce metal that goes into the magic electronic transistors (TIME, Feb. 11), may prove to be ordinary coal. Last week the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Corp. was asking coal operators all over the Appalachian region to send in samples of coal for germanium assay...
...Invalids Assay High. The word spread through the mining country, and so many visitors arrived at the Free Enterprise that they got in the way of the miners who were trying to find out whether its uranium veins were worth working. Wade V. Lewis, an experienced hard-rock miner and president of the company that owns the Free Enterprise, soon discovered that the visiting invalids assayed higher than anything in the mine: every carload was a pay-lode...