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Except for the fact that it boasts one saloon for every 34 residents. Virginia City, Nev., a town of 515 atop the exhausted Comstock Lode, always seemed a wildly improbable place for so determined a dandy as Lucius Beebe. But settle there Beebe did, when he bought a long-defunct weekly, the Territorial Enterprise, in 1952 and resurrected it with an editorial policy of "benevolent backwardness" and "low moral tone, high alcoholic content." Recently, the onetime diarist of New York society, jaded at 58, has been edging away from Virginia City's sagebrush and saloons. Last week his unlikely...
...Bridge Builder John A. Roebling. Mumford's fresh eye saw in the heavy, Romanesque masonry works of 19th century Architect Henry Hobson Richardson (Boston's Trinity Church), the work of "our first truly indigenous master-builder." With The Brown Decades (1865-1895), Mumford mined another overlooked lode, set in perspective Chicago Skyscraper Poet Louis Sullivan and his great pupil, Frank Lloyd Wright...
...expected, Russia easily defeated the U.S. for the unofficial team title by mining a lode of gold medals in such sports as women's gymnastics (5) and women's track (6). Unexpectedly, the proud U.S. men's track team won only nine gold medals (v. 15 in the 1956 Olympics), set chauvinistic officials to charging that the best event of American athletes was the marathon of wine, women and song. Lost in the furor was the obvious fact that the U.S. still easily dominated men's track (runner-up Russia had five gold medals...
...retreat," says Krock. "I merely withdrew to a previously prepared position." In that position he turns out his editorial-page column four times a week, and he does it in precisely his own way, drawing on a background of nearly four decades of political reporting and tapping a lode of sources equaled by few in U.S. journalism...
...Sahara's wealth is not confined to oil: southeast of Tindouf lies what may prove one of the world's largest iron deposits (an estimated 2 billion tons of better-than-50% ore), and below the coalmining center of Colomb-Béchar geologists have found a lode of manganese capable of yielding 50,000 tons a year. Today the great cost of transporting them out of the Sahara excludes exploitation of these heavy ores. But Soustelle, firmly if vaguely, continues to talk of the day when "we shall see materialize in the Sahara...