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The leaching process retrieves even marginal deposits. One place where the method will be used is Angels Camp, Calif., about 120 miles east of San Francisco. Angels Camp provided Mark Twain with notebooks full of prospecting lore for his short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Today workers...
Today, with Harvard's endownment it thebillions, such a gift would hardly cause anyone toblink. But in 1638, the school's operating budgetwas marginal, and officials were so pleased thatthey decided to name the fledgling school inHarvard's honor.
TOTAL TRADE EMBARGO. This House-approved measure could clip the profits of white-owned businesses and apply marginal pressure on the government, while probably throwing blacks out of work on a significant scale -- particularly if mining of gold, coal and diamonds was seriously impeded. American exports to South Africa declined...
The speech went through half a dozen drafts. Twice that many hands tinkered with it, inserting paragraphs here, deleting phrases there. Anecdotes were added, then dropped. Republican Senators trooped into the Oval Office to ! argue that it should be toughened; others telephoned White House aides to have it weakened. A...
Though the U.S. maintains very tough trade sanctions against such countries as Cuba, Viet Nam, Kampuchea, Libya, North Korea and Nicaragua, the Reagan Administration opposes any similar action toward South Africa. So far, Washington has banned the sale of arms, oil and certain police equipment to South Africa, withdrawn from...