Word: coppered
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...installed Ava Gardner in a house shortly after she was divorced from Mickey Rooney. Soon after, it became apparent that Hughes was not devoting much attention to her, and Rooney began stopping by. Hughes confronted Ava and slapped her. She retaliated by hitting him over the head with a copper-based ashtray, knocking him cold. He was taken to a hospital, where his agents managed to have the injuries officially listed as stomach trouble...
Henceforth, Mobutu decreed, Katanga province will be called Shaba (after the Swahili word for copper, the source of the province's and the country's wealth), and the Stanley Pool -the Kinshasa harbor area named for Journalist-Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley-will be referred to as the Malebo Pool (palm tree, in one Zaïre dialect). Elisabethville had already been renamed Lubumbashi and Stanleyville had been changed to Kisangani. Now, even street names like Avenue Charles de Gaulle will have to go, says Mobutu, "despite the admiration we have for this illustrious Frenchman...
...quality of life in many countries. One of its first achievements was to rid North Africa and Asia of their historic plagues of locusts by means of cross-border aerial patrols and insecticide raids. Since 1966 the program's various studies-such as surveys that pinpoint copper lodes in Argentina, Panama and Turkey, iron ore in Chile and Gabon, and uranium in Somalia -have helped stimulate $5 billion in follow-up private investment. More than a third of all aid has gone to Africa and more than a quarter to Asia for assistance in such basic needs as agriculture...
...commonplace, the civil rights crusade has cooled and church mergers are bogging down. So-what better cause than to turn inward and take a long look at church money and where it goes? Already, the churches have mobilized their dollars against bank involvements in South Africa, copper mining in Puerto Rico and discriminatory racial hiring policies in the U.S. (TIME...
...strategic arms. The Soviets dearly want American high-technology goods, like computers and machine tools. Aside from natural gas and metals, however, they have little of compelling interest to offer American customers. Russian mining officials hope to entice American firms to help them exploit some of the huge Siberian copper deposits. But a joint venture-perhaps modeled after Fiat's partnership with Russia in the Togliatti auto plant-would require as much as $4 billion in American investment capital...