Word: mined
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Whim Creek. The White Australia policy is often carried to absurd, esoteric extremes. Recently, five Japanese technicians employed by a Japanese-controlled mining concern-at, of all places, Whim Creek in Western Australia-were convicted of violating an obscure 1904 law specifying that "no Asiatic or African alien shall be employed in any capacity whatever in or about any mine claim." As a result, Western Australia's state legislature last week repealed the law, but virtually negated its action by adopting an amendment specifying that Asians must still get government permits to work in the mines...
...other Americans, a Dutchman, a German and eleven Bolivians - frightened and endangered pawns in a medieval power struggle high in the Bolivian Andes. Dark-featured Indian women, wives of rebellious tin miners, stood guard over them in a shabby union hall at the 14,000-ft.-high Siglo Veinte mine, 135 miles from La Paz. The women cradled tommy guns and tucked dynamite caps beneath their bulging petticoats. On the floor below, just a bullet's zing through the wooden boards should fighting break out, 50 cases of dynamite were stored...
Last year when Paz gained the upper hand, Lechin chose semi-exile as Bolivia's Ambassador to Rome. Paz then set about reorganizing the nationalized mines that normally produce 90% of the country's export income. To win $35 million in foreign help (from the U.S., West Germany and the Inter-American Development Bank), Paz reformed the mine management, reduced the power of the unions, and boldly fired more than 1,000 unneeded miners...
...actors so that he can dictate their every gesture and intonation. In the Paris version of The Rehearsal, he broke this custom by casting Jean-Louis Barrault as the count, but soon he was saying to Barrault: "I don't know whether it's your fault or mine, but I'm bored." His humility may come from the memory of his own beginning years. The son of a poor Protestant tailor from Bordeaux, Anouilh got a job as secretary to Director Louis Jou-vet at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees. He earnestly began writing plays, but whenever...
Ashes of Creation. Part of the Reines apparatus will lie in wait for fat neutrinos. Another part will have several hundred square yards of scintillation counters to watch for mu-mesons generated by neutrinos that hit particles in the rock surrounding the mine. On the earth's surface these neutrino-induced mu-mesons are almost impossible to identify because of confusion caused by cosmic rays...