Word: ores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aluminaut, a man-made sea monster that is helping scientists to unlock the secrets of the sea. On its mission off Florida, it discovered a 100-mile by 150-mile area of -'pavement" apparently swept clean by Gulf Stream currents. Analysis of the 600 Ibs. of ore that Aluminaut brought to the surface indicated that most of the pavement below consisted of a good grade of manganese oxide that might some day be mined commercially...
Bottom Ignorance. The discovery of valuable ore so close at hand is an ironic reminder of how little man knows about the oceans around him. Although scientists have photographed and successfully mapped the hidden backside of the moon, 240,000 miles distant, and made other great strides millions of miles away in space, they have taken only faltering steps in the nearby depths of the seas. No known point on earth lies more than seven miles beneath the surface of the ocean, yet not much more than 5% of the ocean bottom has been explored...
...least a decade, the nuclear-weapon and missile-development programs have been top-priority items for Peking, and are generously supplied with scarce capital equipment and even scarcer trained manpower. China is rich in the raw materials of the nuclear age, even used to export uranium ore to Russia before the ideological split in 1960. Its gaseous-diffusion plant at Lanchow is estimated to turn out enough U-235 to build some 20 bombs a year, and Peking now has as many as 80 bombs of various kinds in various stages of development. That rate will likely soar sharply...
Princeton itself gained fifth-place in the Far West Tournament at Portland, Ore., taking a 77-66 decision over Stanford in is final game. Princeton has fallen from the national Top 10 ranking as a result of recent losses...
Back home in Australia, Holt was just as steady. He pushed industrial and natural-resource development programs that are now raising the country's gross national product by 9% a year; he also made Australia a major world supplier of iron ore, bauxite and alumina, as well as stepping up production of the copper, lead, zinc and coal that it has long produced. By the early 1970s, the government expects to be exporting $1 billion worth of minerals alone (v. $430 million last year...