Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Copper-rich Northern Rhodesia supplies most of the federation's revenues. Racially, it is the pivotal state, lying between Nyasaland, which is almost all black and slated for black rule, and Southern Rhodesia, whose 215,000 white settlers intend to cling to power indefinitely. Macleod last week sprang a proposed new constitution on Northern Rhodesia's 73,000 whites and 2,280,000 blacks. As ingenious as it was complex, it was designed to give Africans an equal voice with the whites in government...
...close to absolute zero, this core becomes superconductive, does not show a trace of electrical resistance even when placed in the strongest magnetic field that Bell Labs can generate, 88,000 gauss (the unit of magnetism). It can carry more than 1,000 times as much current as a copper wire of the same size at normal temperature. Bellmen believe that it can be coiled into a superpowerful electromagnet with a field of at least 100,000 gauss...
...motors and many other devices, are made of coils of wire with electric current flowing through them. The stronger the current, the stronger is the magnetic field that the coils generate. But this increase in magnetic power is practicable only up to a point: ordinary metal wires, such as copper, offer resistance to electricity, and so will carry only a limited amount of current before melting. The strength of electromagnets cannot be increased indefinitely by pushing more current through the coils...
Tshombe is backed in his province by a humming economy still run by the Belgians. Despite all of the Congo's troubles, the copper mines of Katanga's Belgian-owned Union Minière set production records last year, paid $50 million in taxes into Katanga's treasury. With his Belgian adviser, Colonel Guy Weber, always at his shoulder, Tshombe has launched an offensive to clear his province of Gizenga's invading soldiers. In partnership with the Léopoldville military boss, Major General Joseph Mobutu, Tshombe would like to go after Gizenga himself...
...skis at the age of 18 months, took his first jump at such a tender age that he does not remember it, and won his first meet at seven with a leap of over 60 ft. During the war, the Germans interrupted his career by putting him into the copper mines for 4½ years of forced labor. In 1947 Tokle came to the U.S. and promptly began winning meets. Twice national champion (1951, 1953), Tokle was still good enough three years ago to finish a respectable fourth, jumping against some of Europe's best at a meet...