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...press coverage of state legislatures, and from his survey concluded that New Hampshire and Utah had the best coverage, with 4.71 points each. Lowest were Delaware (1.33). which has three daily newspapers, and Montana (1.77) with 1 8. most of which are either controlled by giant Anaconda copper company or subject to its influence. Complained one Montana representative: "We are victims of a completely controlled press, which edits, slants or completely omits any news coverage at will.'' Most weeklies in their areas, said 28.8% of the legislators, give their activities no coverage at all. Wire service coverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Back Talk | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...Rome's Ciampino Airport, Italy's Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat and nearly i ,000 people crowded around Pan American Flight 156 from New York to honor an Italian returning forever home. From the plane was borne a 990-lb., copper-lined coffin, and that night, in a railway baggage car, the remains of Arturo Toscanini were taken north to Milan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Requiem | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Commodity market prices often forecast retail prices six to nine months in advance, since it usually takes that long for the rise or fall in wholesale prices to be passed on. Last week the commodity markets showed a distinct downtrend. Copper, at a 90-year peak of 46 a lb. only last March, slumped to 34?, was expected to drop still further. No. 2 copper scrap, also a March record-breaker when it hit 45.5?, fell 20? to the lowest price in some two years as copper production outpaced demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: A General Sag | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...Furth, Levine and Waniek are trying to design a super-magnet that will not destroy itself. The basic idea is to oppose one magnetic force by another magnetic force instead of by the passive strength of metal. Theoretically this can be done by elaborately wound coils, or by copper sheets intersecting in intricate ways. The theory looks so good that the three scientists are promising to deliver many million gauss of magnetic field, and to churn matter in ways that it has never been churned before. One possibility: a magnetic gun that can shoot a small pellet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Physics & Fantasy | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...economists say there are hints that prices may be tapering off after their long upward climb, particularly in copper and scrap steel (see below). While FRB's cautious moneymen are not yet sure whether the ease is temporary, they are fully alert to the possibility that the worst may be over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Easier Credit | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

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