Word: mudd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failure and waiting impatiently for a primping girl friend to meet him at the library, Geologist Charles Godfrey Gunther idly thumbed his way through an old volume of ancient history. His eye fell on a chapter concerning ancient Cyprus and copper. Months later, with the backing of Colonel Seeley Mudd and Philip Wiseman, Gunther began the long and finally successful search for new copper on Cyprus. Twenty years of U.S. perseverance, frugality and hardship passed before the Cyprus Mines Corp. paid its first dividends...
Uncertain Future. Today the copper mines developed by Gunther, and still largely controlled by the American Mudd family of Los Angeles, have become Cyprus' largest industry, supporting some 2,000 of its inhabitants and providing more than 25% of the island's entire annual revenue. Cyprus Mines Corp. exports nearly 1,000,000 tons of copper a year, runs an up-to-date, 65-bed hospital for its employees, has built scores of low-cost houses for them to live in, helps to run schools, sports clubs, welfare centers and summer camps for their families, and pays...
...Associated Colleges of Claremont, Calif, added a fifth liberal arts college to the four already in operation in Claremont. The new one: Harvey Mudd College, named after Mining Engineer Harvey Seeley Mudd. The college will emphasize basic science and engineering...
Emphasizing the psychological rather than the sociological factors surrounding the issue, three of the group--Mrs. Emily Mudd, Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmond, and Reverend Robert C. Dodds--felt that religious inter-marriage was always a risky affair...
...Emily Mudd, president of the American Association of Marriage Counselors, agreed that "married couples do not subscribe to the old law that opposites attract. Happily married people agree that they are very much alike, but frequently disagree on exactly how they are alike...