Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Similar joint ventures have been set up in dozens of other cities. E.G. & G., the company that triggers atom-bomb blasts for the Atomic Energy Commission, has a Negro-managed subsidiary that is building a metal-fabricating plant in Boston's Roxbury Negro district. In San Francisco, Safeway Stores has rescued a ghetto cooperative supermarket from the brink of bankruptcy, even though the store competes with a Safeway outlet ten blocks away...
...first ten minutes, there is no one at all onstage. The set is simply the metal framework of a box the size of a room. On a garbled tape recording, the voice of Ruth White-middle-aged, pensive, measured and monotonous-fills the box and the theater. The voice is almost sleep inducing, like water lapping persistently at a sea wall. Actress White's monologue consists of some pretentious restatements of the obvious: Art is order; craftsmanship is waning; children in far-off places are starving to death...
...problem this time was South African gold-an estimated $1 billion worth of newly mined metal that has piled up in 400-oz. bars in a refinery near Johannesburg. That cache has been accumulating since March 17, when the bankers stopped the speculative run on gold by creating today's two-price system. Under that arrangement, the historic $35-per-oz. price continues for official transactions among nations; for speculators, hoarders and industrial users, the price was freed to find its own level in the marketplace. To make the system work, the central banks agreed to buy no newly...
...pressure on the U.S. dollar. The result has been a six-month war of nerves. South Africa has stashed away all but a tiny bit of its mines' output. Meantime, it has done its best to persuade the 111-nation International Monetary Fund to buy some of that metal...
...gold medal. Two weeks ago, Jay Silvester, a Utah insurance salesman, broke his own world mark in the discus with a toss of 224 ft. 5 in., which is more than 10 ft. farther than anybody else has ever flung the 4-lb. 61-oz. wood and' metal saucer...