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...aimed at Soviet nuclear missile command centers and perhaps other targets like submarine bases. Explained a defense analyst: "For example, you might know that a Soviet command and control center is in a Soviet mountain, but not exactly where. Titan II's large warhead could be used to dig up the mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Geriatric Giants | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...address the women in the hall as well as the men. "I am sure that on plantation or town or colony was settled except by the aid of women," Eliot told the governor. Minutes later, though, Eliot added, "The men have to hunt and fish and plough and dig and carry wood and water, but the women must cook and wash and sew and bear and bring up the children...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: More Talk, Less Fireworks in 1880 | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Back to the Hills for Gold | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...ROLLING STONES have been rocking for 17 years now, ever since Mick Jagger met Keith Richards on the subway and told him, "I dig to sing." It's easy to forget just how long ago and far away that is, but network news was only 15 minutes long then, people didn't know that cigarettes caused cancer, and Sonny Liston was not only alive but heavyweight champion of the world. There were no pocket calculators, and no Cuisinarts, and students had to wear ties to the dining halls at Harvard. It makes the Rolling Stones, along with Johnny Carson, Muhammad...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Man Who Loved Woman | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...rush to dig for energy after oil and gas prices are deregulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Booming Times for Driilers | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

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