Word: copperizing
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Most African nations have achieved their independence only to find themselves too broke to enjoy it. Not Zambia, the copper-rich state that changed its name from Northern Rhodesia at independence ceremonies last year. Riding a world copper boom that has brought $400 million into the country in the past year alone, President Kenneth Kaunda is in the enviable position of having more money than can be spent...
...industrial level, the pressure of price rises is, if anything, even greater. There have been recent price increases for copper, brass, tin, 20% of all steel products, and such basic industrial chemicals as sulphuric acid and alum. A 5% price hike by a major maker of machine tools is expected to be followed by others. Textiles are more expensive than a few months ago, and so are electric tape and heating oil. Last week three more producers increased the price of containers-historically a leading indicator of general price movements...
...Gulf Coast town of Naples, a previously convicted white moonshiner named Thomas D'Andrea was tried last month for systematically cutting telephone lines to steal the copper wire. By all the evidence, each of D'Andrea's six jurors met the legal requirements: they were local citizens who had no felony convictions and were registered voters. They were also, as it happened, all Negroes, and D'Andrea thereupon wound up with what was reportedly the first all-Negro jury to try a white man in Florida...
...world power in tennis, but it did boast the world's best clay-court player in Manuel Santana, 27, a tenacious, skillful shotmaker who had won his last eight Davis Cup singles matches without losing a set. And when the visiting Americans got a look at the copper-colored center court at Barcelona's Real Club de Tenis, they knew they were in trouble. Slowed even more than normal by heavy rains, the soft surface took the bite out of the serves and volleys, made smashes as easy to handle as lobs. "The name of the game here...
...threat of it normally booms the prices of commodities-the raw materials of tomorrow's meals and manufactures. Last week, however, the world prices of such "soft" commodities as coffee, wool and sugar fell, and prices of such "hard" military sinews as copper, tin and lead barely responded to Lyndon Johnson's decision to increase the U.S. commitment in Viet...