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...great Pittsburgh and Ohio Valley complex, Russia's Do nets Basin - the areas where vast resources and power combine-long ago made their fabulous mark. Another of the world's great areas, in the eyes of geopoliticians, is just beginning to touch its potential. It sprawls, bigger than France, in Brazil's temperate heartland (see map). It is called Minas Gerais (pronounced mee-nesh jer-aye-eesh). However exotic the words sound in Portuguese, they simply mean General Mines-a most pedestrian description of a land of beauty and wealth...
...headed by a 35-year-old Chicagoan named James Forman. With its shock troops heading into Southern towns to start segregation protests and voter-registration drives, SNICK counts success in terms of bloodied noses, beatings at the hands of cops, and days spent by its members in jail. The bigger, better-organized civil rights organizations shudder at SNICK'S bobtail operations. "They don't consult anybody." But for raw courage and persistence, SNICK wins grudging admiration even from its rivals...
...obsidian razor blades. By last week, after the months of excavation, even the most optimistic archaeologists realized that they had vastly underestimated the true size and scope of Teotihuacán. Said Acosta: "This is by far the biggest, most wonderful city of pre-Conquest America. It was bigger in area than Athens, bigger than Rome...
Some ominous new trends popped up in the survey. Though some 1,300 fewer businesses failed last year than in 1961, the companies that failed were generally bigger and the overall loss greater ($1.2 billion v. 1961's $1 billion). In 1962, 134 failing companies had liabilities of more than $1,000,000 each compared with 96 the year before. As usual, more than half of all failures occurred among companies five years old or less, but the number of companies that collapsed after ten years rose to 22% of the total. The apparent reason: logy reflexes...
This was man's first radar contact with the distant planet. It is a tough target to hit, for it is only 3,010 miles in diameter, not very much bigger than the moon, and its orbit keeps it close to the troublesome sun. When Goldstone's radar waves set out for Mercury, they had an effective strength of 25 billion watts. By the time they straggled back, they mustered only five ten-thousandths of a billionth of a billionth of a watt. They had lost the even regularity of oscillation with which they had started...