Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news broke quietly on New Year's Eve. A wire-service report announced that Belgian-controlled Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, which annually mines 314,000 tons of copper in the Congo, was increasing the price of the metal from 380 a pound...
...Chile, the possibility that Rhodesia will cut off neighbor Zambia's supply routes and, as ever, the unsure state of Congo politics. Such a sellers' market was too much to resist for Chile, Zambia and the Congo, all of whose developing economies are largely based on the metal...
...islands-a few smoking volcanoes, many somnolent with heat and sleeping sickness. Its 32 million citizens range from headhunters in northern Luzon to transvestite Manila bini boys, but the bulk of them are hungry, hard-scrabbling peasants who live in the barrios of the towns and cities. Some scavenge metal from the firing ranges of U.S. bases; others cap bottles of San Miguel beer in the big stone brewery near Manila Harbor. Beneath the stately palms of Roxas Boulevard in downtown Manila, the sons of rich Filipino businessmen race their Fords past gaudy jeepneys (freelance taxis). Lovely women mingle...
...Maxey Boys Training School near Ann Arbor, Mich. In rustically modern buildings, 230 boys are housed in individual rooms, attend classes of no more than a dozen students, share 22 fully certified teachers. Most of the boys take a technical curriculum, including such subjects as typing, auto mechanics and metal work, plus English, science, math, art and social studies. One group of 24 boys is pursuing a normal college-preparatory course...
...Medical Battalion, comprising four companies. At Danang is Company C, or "Charlie Med" to the gyrenes. "Back last summer," says Lieut. Commander Richard M. Escajeda, 36, chief surgeon and commander of Charlie Med, "we used to classify eight casualties as a mass casualty event. Then we rang a big metal ring-like a country fire alarm-and everybody reported to his station. Now things have changed so, we have to get 20 patients at once before we consider it a mass casualty...