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...declared himself President for life), Zaire boasts more than 7,000 university graduates who make up the core of a growing native managerial class. There is an estimated $3.5 billion in foreign investment at work or committed in the country. Zaire is the world's largest producer of cobalt and exporter of industrial diamonds. It ranks fifth in copper production and expects to nearly double its annual output...
...broad-sweep charter that outlines the country's goals for the next quarter-century. Right now, Sadat is putting major emphasis on liberalizing the economic field. Unlike its oil-rich Arab neighbors, Egypt has few proven petroleum reserves, although it does have deposits of iron ore, phosphate, cobalt, nickel and copper...
...Hilda MacKenzie of Brockton was crushed to death when the "fail-safe" mechanism on the Theratron cobalt radio-therapy machine failed to operate. She died when the treatment platform on which she lay moved upwards against the machine...
Bennet in the fall of 1972 was diagnosed as having cancer of the throat. For four months he underwent cobalt radiation treatments at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In February 1973 Bennet's doctors discovered that his tumor had been arrested...
...STUCK with one daughter with half a mind; another one who's half a test tube; half a husband--a house half full of rabbit crap--and half a corpse! That's what I call a half-life, Matilda! Me and cobalt-60." In sarcasm and desperation, Beatrice, the heroine of Paul Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, screams at her indrawn daughter. At first glance, I wanted to add that Ron Melrose's production at the Loeb Ex is, sequentially, half a show. But that's too easy, too pat. This production...