Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Handwriting on Sponges. The three traditional methods of making graphic-arts plates are: scoring smooth copper with a burin for intaglio engraving, carving in wood with a gouge for relief printing, and drawing on stone with grease crayon for lithography. Now, graphic artists print from almost anything almost any way. Sid Hammer, 38, produces his blocks by melting vinyl, as plain as kitchen flooring, with a hot incising iron. "My graphics," says he, "have the sensation of handwriting on a sponge." The handwriting ends up on the wall for less than $100. In Hawaii recently, an art student produced...
...such as From My Zoo, by building up patterned layers of cardboard coated with rabbit glue and gesso, then pressing wet paper under hundreds of pounds of pressure to emboss a white-on-white print. Boris Margo, 62, similarly makes a "cellocut" by carving into celluloid, coating it with copper, and stamping it into uninked paper...
...elected, Allende promises to organize all campesinos into unions, nationalize much of Chilean agriculture, plus all foreign commerce, private banks, public utilities, iron ore and nitrate mines and, of course, the U.S.-owned copper mines producing 11% of the world's copper. "We will bring the defeat forever of the oligarchy with a revolution within the law," he cries. Allende vaguely guarantees work and education for all, "massive" housing programs, and medical care for each and every worker. "Chile," he insists, "is a nation quite capable of sound development. But we are strangled by U.S. imperialism...
...Ominous. For the price watchers, there have already been a few disturbing signs. In its latest survey, the National Association of Purchasing Agents found more prices going up than down. The prices of such basic metals as aluminum, copper and tin have risen. Scrap steel, electric motors and corrugated paper cartons are all more expensive now than a few months ago. Last week the major U.S. tire companies agreed that there should be an increase in the price of replacement tires - perhaps by 3% - to cover wage and benefit hikes won by workers...
When a rich lode of copper was discovered at Timmins in Ontario last April, the news set off a wild rush of speculation in Canadian mining stocks. As prospectors staked out some 8,000 claims in the Timmins area, penny stocks became dollar stocks on the Toronto Exchange, and paper fortunes piled up almost overnight. Though most of the glory and the proven reserves belong to the lode's Yank discoverer, Texas Gulf Sulphur, Canadians were particularly pleased when one of their own companies seemed on the verge of its own strike. It was only a small company with...