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...grade iron ore, some 35 billion tons at last count, and its rushing brown rivers could generate 15 million kw. of electricity, more than is now produced by the entire TVA system. Its miners already dig 90% of Brazil's iron ore, 95% of its bauxite, beryllium and mica, all of its graphite and nickel, most of its diamonds and gold. Its furnaces and factories lead the country in pig iron, steel and ferrous alloys, rank second in aluminum, cement and lime. And on its rolling farm lands, 16.5 million cattle and 8,500,000 hogs fatten for market...
...disks cut furrows under the film's edges, rubber wheels press the edges down, and another pair of disks covers them with soil. Planting is done by hollow cone-shaped spikes that punch holes in the film 8 in. apart and insert slugs of moist vermiculite (puffed-up mica) that contain a cottonseed and carefully calculated doses of fertilizer, insecticide and fungicide. Snuggled in the warmth and moisture under the film, the seeds sprout quickly and grow up through the hole. Cotton plants mature as much as one month early. Weeds that grow in the bare soil between...
Toward the mainland, north of Athens, are the Northern Sporades and the delightful island of Skiathos. Its beach, Koukounaries, is one of the finest in the Aegean, and the sand, laced with mica, glitters like silver. Skiathos is a playground for the sturdy loner who is happy with rucksack and sleeping bag. Although the islanders are conservative enough to be repelled by the sight of women in shorts or slacks, they are also warm and carefree. One night recently, two American women who had bedded down in sleeping bags in a park, woke suddenly to find the young...
...Stone Age puns. Sooner or later they may have to introduce a new character called Spelunk-head, the village idiot. Mrs. Flintstone could ask her husband to please pass the basalt and pepper, and in redoing the kitchen, she could be for marble table tops, while he is for mica. In the next few weeks the Flintstones and their neighbors will be in and out of a jazz palace called Rockland and a movie set where The Monster from the Tar Pits is being made with Gary Granite and Rock Pile. They even get a mysterious visit from Perry Gunnite...
...homosexual, and rouged and powdered his cheeks. One room of his house was decorated as a snow scene, with a polar bear rug. a sleigh, and mica hoarfrost. He sometimes wore a white velvet suit and a bunch of violets in the neck of his shirt instead of a cravat. But he did have cravats. 100 of them in "tender pastel shades" that hung in a glass cupboard in his bathroom...