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...which President Kennedy brought up the subject of stockpiling that sent a shudder last week through metal centers from the aluminum mills of California to the copper mines of the Congo. In harsher language than he usually uses at his press conferences, the President implied that the nation's 23-year-old war-emergency stockpiling program was chockablock with "mismanagement" and "unconscionable profits" and demanded a congressional investigation. On Wall Street, copper, lead, zinc and aluminum stocks softened, and futures in metals and rubber nosed down...
Senefelder was familiar with etching, but etching a whole script on copper plates would take too much time. One day. his mother asked him to make a list of some laundry she was about to send out. Almost without thinking, Senefelder wrote the list on a flat piece of limestone that had come from the quarries of Solnhofen. He used an etching crayon of wax. soap and lampblack-and got the idea that he might cover the stone with acid that would eat away the part of the surface not protected by the crayon. It worked, but in the traditional...
Even in his lifetime (1720-78), Piranesi printed his copper engravings so frequently that he often had to re-etch them to restore clarity. Now many of the plates-durably steel-coated at a heavy cost in faithfulness-belong to the Italian government, which occasionally runs off a new edition to the profit of the treasury. The prints produced in this "Piranesi industry" sell for around $15 each, but "the result is about as true to the original as a picture postcard would be," says Salamon. The merit of the Turin exhibit is to let viewers see prints from Piranesi...
...functions." His Roman Antiquities made him famous; his Views of Rome is the greatest pictorial biography ever done of Rome. He worked tirelessly on, defying to the last the new champions of ancient Athens. Even while abed with the cancer that killed him, he called for his tools and copper plates. "Rest is unworthy of a Roman citizen," he said...
...Indian, Ethiopian, Swedish and Irish soldiers around Elisabethville might well resume their hail of shells, rockets and machine-gun fire. When one of Tshombe's platoons last week clashed with a group of Ethiopian soldiers who occupied the big Union Minière copper refinery at nearby Lubumbashi, the Ethiopians fought so bitterly that the ground was littered with Katangese dead as the survivors retreated in disorder...