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...Ryan was born in 1912 in the small town of Ely, Nev. to an Irish copper miner and his German wife. Before she was two, her father moved the family to Artesia, Calif., where he bought a ten-acre truck farm. Pat's mother died when she was 13, leaving her to do all the housework and some of the fieldwork. Eleanor Stegeberg was born in 1921 on a South Dakota farm at the outset of the great farm depression. Her mother died when she and her twin sister Ila were eleven. There was never much money but there...
Occasionally Goodman's skewered mates get their own back. Whipping around to strike his No. 4 kettledrum once, he flailed empty air. A colleague had tied a rope to the big copper bowl and, while Goodman was looking elsewhere, hauled it away...
...Mining and processing Soviet oil, chrome, copper, nickel, palladium and platinum, which U.S. auto manufacturers may need to make antipollution devices (see story on page 65). The Soviets would like U.S. firms to supply advanced mining equipment in return for longterm, fixed-price contracts to buy the processed minerals...
...about 250 firms have been taken over; many were "intervened" (as Chilean official jargon puts it) in the wake of often phony labor disputes or charges that production is faltering. Hundreds of foreign technicians have left the country, contributing to a sharp drop in productivity. In the nationalized copper industry, Chile's largest source of income, production this year is projected only marginally higher than last, despite a plant-capacity increase...
...apparently sober explanation for the disks' popularity. They are, he says, "the perfect marriage between man's greatest tool-his hand-and his greatest dream -to fly." But even Johnson is hard-pressed to account for the latest development on the Frisbee front. Among the crowds at Copper Harbor was a bevy of "froupies," short for Frisbee groupies. They too seemed to want to have a fling...