Word: minis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skis, weigh about 17 lbs., and can readily be dismantled to fit into car trunks. The tubular metal frame has handle bars connected to a short pivoting ski in front, and a well-padded saddle moored to a longer fixed ski in back. For added balance, ski bobbers wear mini-skis fitted with braking crampons on both feet...
Since its first issue rolled off the presses in July, 1965, the Courier, in decided to settle for one paper, and the face of perpetual financial crisis and rapid turnover of its mini-staff, has never missed a week. Young reporters driving long distances late at night have demolished Courier cars; business managers have thrown up their hands at the Courier'S book-keeping-by-memory system and stalked out of its two-room headquarters in a downtown Montgomery office building, never to return. But while steadily losing money (advertising and sales pay only a fraction...
...Khan and his uncle, Sadruddin, have the back and side windows of their Mini-Coopers done in inky black. So do Greek Snipping Scion Alex Goulandris, Actor Albert Finney and Beatle George Harrison. Fellow Beatle John Lennon's Rolls is completely blacked out except for the windshield-despite the impairment to vision. So is Prince Philip's experimental Ogle sports...
...five-year agreement calls for S.G.M. to take over the Union Minière operation. S.G.M. will also recruit non-African technical personnel and market the minerals from the mines. While answerable to Gecomin, the Belgian company will handle the payment of guaranteed hard-currency wages to non-African workers. The agreement cannot be terminated until 1972, and then only if two years' notice has been given by either party. S.G.M. will make 4.5% or some $15 million a year, plus expenses, on sales of copper for the new Congolese management...
Still to be settled: compensation of Union Minière for $800 million in seized assets, and claims by the Congo on $100 to $150 million worth of copper in shipment at the time the mines were nationalized...