Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nationality, on a special mission to Stanleyville, where Antoine Gizenga holds sway over Eastern province and claims to be the only true heir of the late Patrice Lumumba. Gardiner persuaded Gizenga that it was safe to send a delegation to Leopoldville for the reopening of Parliament. In Katanga, the copper-rich secessionist province that stubbornly refused to share its wealth with the rest of the Congo, Linner's other U.N. emissary, Francis Nwokedi of Nigeria, was hard at work on the Deputies of stubborn "President" Moise Tshombe, who has been held as hostage in a villa near Leopoldville. Grumbling...
...sluggishness in between. Reason: the here-and-now U.S. economy has nearly as many soft spots as a well-matured cantaloupe. The stock market is on a high but flat plateau. Steel production is trending down into its normal summer doldrums. Price discounts have softened not only steel but copper, aluminum, rubber, paper and chemicals. Most sluggish of all is the industry that since World War II has customarily led the U.S. out of its recessions: housing...
...kill myself for artists. The hell of it is I hate them," muttered Copper Heiress Peggy Guggenheim, 63, as she reminisced about the many hungry artists she has subsidized over the years. Last week, as angry as ever, Patroness Guggenheim claimed that the late Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock had turned out paintings on the side during the penniless years when she had been paying him $300 a month for his entire output (except for one picture per year). Her response: a law suit against the artist's widow, Lee Krasner Pollock (herself a highly regarded abstractionist), demanding either...
...commands, she "tantalizingly presses her body against the deputy's and eases his own gun from its holster. The movement of her shirt rubbing against him opens the front revealingly." "See?" she asks tauntingly. "You should've searched me. You kinda missed something, didn't you, copper?" The movie thus plants itself squarely in the category of the big leer (TIME, June...
...Frank R. Milliken, 47. was elected president of Kennecott Copper Corp.. succeeding Charles R. Cox, 70, who is retiring...