Word: copperizing
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...rest of Canada, most of the province's population huddles along a narrow ribbon in the south; the vast majority of Quebecois live within 50 miles of the St. Lawrence, and 82% live within 200 miles of Montreal (pop. 2,758,780). Quebec is rich in iron, copper, zinc and timber, and produces 80% of the non-Communist world's asbestos. Its 450 rivers give it huge reserves of hydropower. Vast hydroelectric projects, like the $16.2 billion James Bay complex now under construction (see map), have made Quebec one of the world's major centers of aluminum production. The province...
...commodity trading adviser from the Commodities Future Trading Commission, the federal agency created in 1974 to regulate the industry. He set up Lloyd, Carr in mid-1976 to specialize in the most speculative of all investments: options in futures of such items as coffee, sugar, cocoa and copper, which are traded on the London commodities market...
...Broncos, ah, the Broncos are the Mets of the Mountains. Theirs is a Cinderella story to catch the fancy of underdog rooters everywhere and stamp a presence on the national mind as copper bright and shiny as a new penny from the Denver Mint. It is exquisite, this first flirtation with a world championship of sport. No matter how often it may recur, it will never again be so sweet. It excuses the excesses and lifts the hearts of all who look on and recall...
Mushrooming 273 ft. into the skyline, sited in 52 acres of the central business district, the copper-toned Superdome looks like a happily defected UFO, or-more to Orleanians' tastes-a gargantuan cheese souffle. Inside, despite a decidedly sublunary decor, the building is a mechanical marvel, capable of seating in air-conditioned comfort the entire populations of Andorra, Liechtenstein and Monaco, with room left over for a couple of football teams, four trade exhibitions, a dog show and a few hundred ushers, guards and food vendors. Or, as Orleanians never fail to point out, it could swallow Houston...
DIED. General Juan Velasco Alvarado, 67, former left-leaning military president of Peru; in Lima. Velasco seized power in a 1968 coup and nationalized U.S. oil and copper firms. His land reform gave millions of acres to peasants, but Velasco's growing dictatorial powers led to his ousting by more moderate officers...