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...company is ICOMI (for Indústria e Comércio de Minérios), which is owned 51% by Brazilians and 49% by Bethlehem Steel Corp. ICOMI owns the exclusive rights to one of the world's biggest known reserves of manganese ore, discovered in the Amazon Basin in 1946. By careful planning, efficient management and plain luck, it has not only launched a highly successful mining operation but completely avoided the abuse that Brazil's ultranationalists have heaped on other mining firms that have foreign interests...
RONALD L. CAHN Bloomington, Ind...
Evansville, Ind., is a quiet community of 141,543 on the Ohio River with all sorts of distinction. It is known as the "Home of Pablum" for its Mead Johnson cereal plant, and as the "Barbecue Capital of the U.S." for its hickory trees, which furnish lumber for barbecue fires. It is also the home of Evansville College, a Methodist institution (enrollment: 2,542) that prides itself on the Christian virtues. Like hospitality. When visiting basketball teams arrive, they get a big hello: a tour of the Museum of Arts and Science, a hearty steak dinner in the campus dining...
...Nameless Woe. In a new paperback called The Gospel According to Peanuts (Knox; $1.50), Short contends that the cartoon, whose creator is a lay preacher in the Church of God of Anderson, Ind., is a modern variety of prophetic literature, full of useful parables for the times. For example, "the doctrine of original sin is a theme constantly being dramatized in Peanuts." When Charlie Brown gloomily confides to Linus that he has "been confused right from the day I was born," he sums up the "nameless woe" that is at the heart of man's predicament...
...warning system upon which the U.S. and Canada are spending, and will continue to spend, many millions of dollars, are to be closed down. Some sprawling manned-aircraft installations, of diminishing usefulness in the reign of the guided missile, will go. So will four Army training bases (Camp Atterbury, Ind., Fort Custer, Mich., and Camp Parks and Camp San Luis Obispo, both in California) that have, in the absence of full-scale war, been inactive for months, and are now inhabited only by caretakers and cobwebs...