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...Last January, the world price of copper was 50? per Ib. Now the price is more than $1 per Ib. and, the Treasury Department notes, if that figure reaches $ 1.20, the cost of making a cent will exceed the face value of the coin. Metal profiteers call that the "melting point," and it would usher in a vast hoarding of pennies in order eventually to melt them down for sale on the open market...
McGrath also said yesterday that he considers the proposed plant's emergency core cooling system inadequate. The cooling system, he says, would go into operation when the plant's nuclear reactor reached 2300 degrees Fahrenheit, but the reactor would start to melt at 1700 degrees...
...much of this effort went for naught because Saturday and Sunday's rain wiped out all but the heartiest snow strips. The rationale of the weather-cycle freaks is that this year the snow won't all be dumped at the beginning of the season and then left to melt or turn to ice. Instead, they predict a "normal" winter with increasingly severe weather through December and January and periodic late- season storms to revitalize the slopes...
...Arctic icebergs, normally far smaller, would probably melt away before reaching Northern Hemisphere processing points...
...three enemy youngsters cross into no man's land, twelve of Smokey's gang set off at a run to intercept them. No weapons are visible yet, but the mood is ugly. Fortunately, a cruising police car happens by before the two groups collide, and the antagonists melt into studied casual poses. "They know there's gonna be trouble," observes a Montgomery. "Norris is gonna move on us tonight, and the Man's got the word...