Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pilgrimage to Mecca and being received as a true believer. He wore the white robe that signified his faith. In the four days before his burial, more than 20,000 persons, almost all Negroes, filed past his body as it lay on view in a glass-topped, wrought-copper casket. Following Muslim custom, when Malcolm was buried in suburban Westchester's Ferncliff Cemetery, his head was to the east, toward Mecca...
...high incomes, school reform to upgrade Chile's lagging primary and secondary schools. He wants to deflate the government's ballooning bureaucracy and amend the constitution to protect workers' rights to join unions. His most controversial proposal is the "Chileanization" of the country's copper industry; the government would acquire 51% interest in the U.S.'s Braden Copper Co. and a 25% interest in two new U.S. ventures in return for an $80 million payment and a promise of stable taxes. Frei claims that the scheme would double Chilean copper exports to $1.2 billion...
...attack Frei's program chiefly because of its proposals for higher taxes, a state bank and land reform. The three moderately leftist parties resent Frei's plans because he has stolen their social-reform thunder. On the extreme fringes, the Communists and Socialists denounce everything, particularly the copper plan, which they rail at as a mere ruse to allow foreigners to exploit Chile's riches...
Electronic Collision. So frail that it can hold its shape only at weightless, airless altitudes, that wide wing is the working element of a satellite, built by Fairchild Hiller Corp., for detecting micrometeoroids. Pegasus' 208 rectangular panels are covered on both sides with thin sheets of copper and aluminum separated by plastic. The metal sheets are electrically charged, but normally no current flows between them. When a micrometeoroid penetrates the aluminum, it will punch a hole in the plastic and fill the hole with metal vapor that is a good conductor of electricity. Although the gas will dissipate quickly...
...r.p.m. are the ancestors of today's kinetic op art. And critics are far from convinced that all the ideas have been mined from his Bride, etc., the first industrial collage, a 5-ft. by 9⅔-ft. sandwich of windowpane within which snipped tin and copper forms (the suitors) float without overlapping, obediently awaiting the operation of a rotating coffee grinder that can, yet never will, unite them with the abstract floating bride...