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With the price of gold still surging-one day last week it rose $30.70 in New York, to $680 per oz.-companies are finding it profitable to crush even mountains of rock to extract the shiny metal. Homestake has been spending $270 per oz. to dig gold from a Lead, S. Dak., mine that it opened in 1876. Six tons of ore must be mined in order to get one ounce of gold. Extraction in Napa County will cost between...
...gangster friend may want her back. The last place Bennett would look, Joe decides, is at his own auto plant. But does Joe really take a job there of his own free will, as he believes? Or have the enormous forces of wealth and crime conspired to crush...
Being a television floor correspondent is physically taxing. Bradley and many of his colleagues thought of this somewhat resentfully as they wilted in the steamy crush of delegates. Late one evening, he gazed into the bleachers and spotted a magazine reporter asleep in her seat...
...junta immediately disbanded Congress, imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew and moved rapidly to crush resistance by students and workers, who called for a general strike in protest against the "fascist coup-makers." Tanks and troops also moved into southern towns where some 5,000 armed tin miners were blocking the roads and vowing to fight the coup "until the ultimate consequences." There were ominous signs that the junta had adopted the chilling anti-terrorist tactics pioneered by Argentina's military bosses. As in Argentina, a number of activists simply disappeared after being kidnaped by plain-clothes thugs...
Provincial by Western standards, the artists whose work was vandalized by the state at Cheremushki may not have been of high interest, outside the U.S.S.R., to a historian of style; it was as though the New York City police had been sent to crush one of the weekend art shows at Washington Square. Yet the meaning of the event lay not in the merits of this "dissident" art as art, but in its power to provoke repression simply by existing. Of all the major Occidental powers, only the U.S.S.R. treats art as though it were politically dangerous. By doing...