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Siberia also has the world's largest deposits of iron ore and coal, virgin forests as large as all of Europe, half the world's gold production and diamond deposits matching those of South Africa. Half a dozen great rivers, all flowing north into the Arctic Ocean, may one day provide hydroelectric power across the Bering Strait for Canada and the U.S. It is not so wild a dream. Already the Russians have built the world's largest dams on the Yenisei and Angara rivers at Krasnoyarsk and Bratsk, and a third one is going...
WALKING THE DEAD DIAMOND RIVER...
...diamond, perhaps, a tear...
...musical training and personal taste that ran to folk singers and Johnny Mathis, he was shrewd enough to develop Santana; Chicago; Blood, Sweat and Tears; Sly and the Family Stone. Gives stars unprecedented artistic freedom, also unprecedented money. Some ventures viewed as risky: $4 million acquisition of Neil Diamond, $2 million-plus deal with Laura Nyro, who hasn't done a record in nearly two years. No sooner signed Delaney and Bonnie for $200,000 than couple separated. Rest of industry, undisguisedly envious, predicts he will go too far and fall. Seems unworried. Earns about $250,000 a year...
...hour after takeoff, the four were back, passing low in diamond formation in salute to the men on the ground. Last to land was Lieut. Thomas Boykin, 26, who reported that he had encountered enemy ground fire near a target in the Delta and had spotted a secondary explosion on the ground after he had attacked. "I dropped the last one," said Boykin. "I'm glad it's over." Boykin's buddies then dumped a bucket of water over his head...