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...Commonwealth banquets also came from there. For Zambia, the Tazara Railway, built by the Chinese to open up a land link from Zambia through Tanzania to the Indian Ocean, is almost a writeoff. The railway works, but the port of Bares Salaam cannot cope with the tonnage of copper that Zambia would like to export by that route. The result is that to export its copper Zambia has been paying heavy transport and port costs to Tanzania. At one point, Zambia claimed that 70,000 tons of copper were waiting for shipment at Dar. Shipping delays and subsequent storage charges...
Proclaiming the city's energy eminence are the names over the doors of its new office towers: Energy Center I, the Petroleum Building and Anaconda Tower (the old copper mining company, now owned by Atlantic Richfield oil, is big in uranium). Construction of a 36-story Amoco Tower and a 23-story Energy Plaza will be completed next year. In all, 27 major office buildings are now going up. Work on two dozen more office complexes will begin in 1980. All this has transformed the once unimpressive skyline of Denver...
...Treasury hopes for the Anthony buck are high. The coins, which are made of nickel-covered copper and contain no silver, weigh only a third as much as the Ike dollar. They are also cheaper to produce than paper dollars-3? for a coin that lasts 15 years vs. 1.8? for a bill that survives 18 months. The coin's distinctive undecagonal shape, besides being an aid to the blind, is also intended to help store clerks and bank tellers speed up transaction time and reduce errors; it should also cut down on jamming in currency-counting machines used...
...Iranians are likely to get into a court brawl when the injunction expires. As if to leave no doubt about its intentions to rap U.S. firms, the Iranian regime next day announced that it was abrogating a large contract with Anaconda, involving the building of a $1.7 billion copper purification plant...
...Chardin extended his ideal of the family to include groups of objects as well as people. Once one has been through the show, the props of his still lifes, which were also the normal appurtenances of his home life, become like familiar faces: the patriarchal mass of his copper water urn, perched on its squat tripod; the white teapot with its rakish finial; the painted china that signaled his growing prosperity, and so on down to the last stoneware daubière, all signifying a world in which the eye could work without alienation or even strain...