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Rhodesia, says the Sunday Times, produces six key commodities for sale abroad: tobacco, sugar, asbestos, copper, chrome and iron. According to the newspaper's careful study of world markets, Rhodesia today "is selling all the asbestos and copper she sold before, around a third of the chrome, almost half the iron ore and a third of the tobacco." Only on sugar have the sanctions worked. As a result, Rhodesia will earn some $150 million this year, selling goods in defiance of U.N. sanctions-goods that enter world markets bearing false bills of origin from other countries...
...test wire like a piece of string. Or he may charge the boat-and if he does, the boat had better get out of the way. Nantucket fishermen still talk about the time a broadbill rammed the whaling ship Fortune, ran its bill right through the hull's copper sheathing, a 3-in.-thick hardwood plank...
Knaves & Saints. The surest fact that can be gathered from his work is that Master E.S. was a goldsmith whose crisp, fine-lined incising in gold and silver undoubtedly led him to explore engraving on copper plates. Gutenberg had just discovered a way to print words, and perhaps the notion that pictures too could be printed in much the same way led E.S. to experiment. He may have started simply by making studies for goldsmith work. Some of his prints, indeed, seem to be design patterns for chalices and monstrances. But he went on to fashion in copper a Gothic...
Saint-Gaudens added a flowing cloak of copper sheets, so she could act as a wind vane as well, and up she went on the Garden tower, to twirl on a swivel before the prevailing breeze. New York fell in love at first sight. She became the protectress of the cat show, the horse show, the sportsmen's show, the prizefights and circuses. Around 1905, a severe storm ripped away her cloak; from then on she was bolted securely down. She presided over William Jennings Bryan's nomination for President, saw Jack Dempsey knock out Bill Brennan...
...average $4.68 that G.M.'s workers now get in wages and benefits. More realistically, the union's goal is probably a full 6% increase-at a time when the automakers are just beginning to feel the cost of mandatory safety modifications and higher prices in steel, copper and rubber. Ford last week announced that, even without a strike and a big wage increase, the company's profits will be down about 40% this year from 1966's $621 million...