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...some harsh public criticism, it has also paid hard dividends. La Générale's hulking Katanga satellite-Union Miniėre du Haut-Katanga-continues to produce 8% to 10% of the free world's copper, some 25% of its germanium, 65% of its cobalt. Throughout the Congo, La Générale's subsidiaries still act as the prime exporters and importers, miners and managers, and are a mighty force in autos, oil, cotton, sugar, rubber, real estate, banking and insurance. La Générale's Congo investments produced...
...Probably the most effective bomb in spreading worldwide death would be salted with cobalt, which absorbs neutrons and turns into radioactive cobalt 60. Since cobalt 60's half life is five years, it would be carried all over the earth before losing its activity. About 50,000 megatons of cobalt-salted bombs would theoretically provide enough long-lasting radioactivity to kill everyone on earth...
...near a beige and white Corsican fishing village. Zanuck needed the U.S. Navy, and the only fleet the Pentagon had available for him was the Sixth. which is supposed to stay in the Mediterranean. Undaunted, Zanuck's special-effects technicians smoked out the high Corsican hills, beclouded the cobalt air, and hosed down the white beaches so the sand would look dark and Norman. A sign went up warning local nudists to head for the interior; then 1,200 U.S. marines, dressed in Army uniforms, hit the beach, wading and crawling past plastic obstacles and plastic corpses...
...five or six years since Hultberg began getting attention and placing work in important collections and museums, his painting has changed only slowly. His colors-bottle greens, cobalt blues, neon reds-still flash out from this recess or that like glints on a prism. But color now interests Hultberg less than composition, and in composition he is moving more and more toward humanistic painting. "I want to put the human being in a setting," he says, "in a landscape, but equal to the landscape." Hultberg is his own frankest critic. He finds that his paintings are of a world more...
...recent decision: "The plaintiff may expect his claim to be upheld if he avers that his right to make his own decisions, based on the nature of his disease, was thwarted by the doctor's concealment." Earlier this year, after a Kansas woman suffered burns from radioactive cobalt therapy for her breast cancer, her physician was judged negligent-even though the treatment was skillfully performed-simply because he failed to tell her there was a risk of radiation burn, and therefore, said the court, had not obtained her "informed consent" to the treatment...