Word: molybdenum
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...system. The jury decided that the system had just been too much for Abbott. So the verdict was manslaughter. Abbott had been acting, the jury decided, under "extreme emotional disturbance." Sentencing comes next month. A judge of Solomonic gifts might condemn Abbott and Mailer to be shackled together with molybdenum chains, inseparable ever after, like Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones, to clunk, snarling, from one literary dinner party to another...
Allis-Chalmers to lay off 1,300 in Missouri . . . Smith-Corona to suspend output at three plants employing 3,450 . . . Pennzoil to shut down all its copper and molybdenum operations...
...your story on the fight to save Crested Butte [June 29], readers may have missed the point that the "backyard" we are trying to spare and the molybdenum under the ground both belong to all Americans. Multinationals like Amax, under the existing laws, would take that resource and in return would leave the people of the U.S. with one more ecological time bomb to cope with...
After the mountains around Crested Butte are mined, will the plastic and paint made from the molybdenum make up for the loss of one of the few lovely places left...
...well-being of all Americans is intimately tied to preventing a rape-and-run mining venture from destroying the Colorado area of Crested Butte. Amax spends large amounts of money trying to find new uses for molybdenum (adequate supplies of which are available elsewhere). Part of what is produced in the U.S. goes to the Soviet Union. Should a beautiful part of America be torn up to guarantee that the steel in Soviet ICBM warheads is adequately hardened...