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...Cobalt in the Head. The brand that they favored was Dow, a Canadian beer brewed in Montreal and Quebec. But no problem had been encountered in Montreal. What was the difference be tween the two brewing processes? In Quebec, an extra dose of a cobalt salt had been added to build and hold the beer's foamy head. When? One month before the first patient's symptoms appeared. Though the amount of cobalt was well below legal levels, and though no conclusive cause-effect proof could be made, Dow dumped $1,260,000 worth of the suds into...
Pointed Question. The Congo will indeed be poor unless it can keep Union Minière's mines, which produce more than 6% of the world's copper and 60% of its cobalt, running efficiently. In Brussels, the company reacted by withholding more than $10 million in royalties that it owes the Congo and ceasing its tax payments, which amount to about $2,000,000 a month. It also declared that it would regard any of the copper that is purchased from Mobutu's company by other countries as stolen property to be recovered in the courts...
Once he mounts his specially air-conditioned podium,* he rivets his cobalt-blue gaze on the musicians and sweeps into the music with a concentration so intense that he likes to think it hypnotic. He is thickset and stubby (5 ft. 5 in.), but he makes up for his small stature with big gestures. At one rehearsal Ormandy swung his fist down for a crescendo and accidentally knocked out the orchestra's librarian, who happened to be standing too close...
...because it will produce two valuable byproducts, electricity and radioactive isotopes. It will turn out 1,000,000 gal. per day-enough for the average needs of 10,000 rural-area people-as well as 2,500 kw. of electricity per hour and up to 500,000 curies of cobalt-60 isotopes per year, which together could be sold for $500,000 annually. Though the 35? price for the desalted water will be above the 30? that Riverhead now pays for regular water, it will be lower than the price paid by most surrounding communities. Says A.M.F. Chairman Carter Burgess...
Such speeds were made possible by the invention in the early '30s of an aluminum-nickel-cobalt alloy known commercially as alnico, which has magnetic properties that enable the cars' tiny motors to rev up to as much as a staggering 25,000 r.p.m. They buzzed over from England to the U.S. about ten years ago, but only in the last year or so have they moved out of the hobby shops and the subteen set to become a full-scale way of life. Epicenter of the new wave is California, where there are now about 300 slot...