Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michigan State's football team, its 17th game in a row, over lowly, unrated Oregon State, 17-14; in Portland, Ore. Leading at halftime, 14-0, Michigan State was not only stopped cold in the second half but stood tied at 14-all with the ball on Oregon State's 8-yd. line and time left for one play. After a field-goal try sailed wide, the game looked finished. But Oregon State had been offside; on the second chance, with the clock run out, the reprieved Spartans made their three points good. Other notable winners: Notre Dame...
...program was set up to show her paintings to thousands more; the critics gave her a hearty cheer. After a month in Toronto, the pleased sponsors announced, Berthe and her circle will take off for a two-year tour of a dozen Canadian and U.S. galleries from Portland, Ore. to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...public domain, few have cashed in on leases or land sales. On top of that, uranium mining and processing is a hot and dirty job which promises few big bonanzas. "In most eight-hour days," says one prospector, "it just isn't possible to recover enough high-grade ore to pay your expenses. Maybe after you have moved 75 tons of rock your vein peters out and you have to drill around and start a new shaft. Then, after days of back-breaking work and futile drilling and blasting, you hit a pocket and in a few hours...
...down to a rational explanation of what the fund was all about. Reporters circulating through his audiences the rest of the trip found that even visiting Democrats seemed sympathetic to Nixon, and were not especially outraged by the fund story. But by the time his train pulled into Portland, Ore. late Saturday, Nixon was tight-lipped and grey-faced. He was well able to handle his audiences, but he was hardly prepared for what was going on behind...
Germanium Hunt. The best ore of germanium, the scarce metal that goes into the magic electronic transistors (TIME, Feb. 11), may prove to be ordinary coal. Last week the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Corp. was asking coal operators all over the Appalachian region to send in samples of coal for germanium assay...