Word: ores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old barmaid was found beaten to death in an abandoned hog house; then a 65-year-old widow was bound, robbed and raped. According to Police Chief Harold Tinder, Speck left town the night of the latter crime. In late April, he shipped out on an iron-ore boat but was sent ashore after one week to undergo an emergency appendectomy in Hancock, Mich. There, he made friends with a newly divorced nurse, Judy Laakaniemi, 28. Speck dated her several times, she told police, who said that he "treated her very nice...
Married. William O. Douglas, 67, U.S. Supreme Court Justice; and Cathleen Curran Heffernan, 23, a senior at Portland, Ore.'s Roman Catholic Marylhurst College, he for the fourth time; in Encino, Calif., just three weeks after his divorce from his third wife, Joan Martin, 26, and three days after Joan announced her own remarriage, to Roger Nicholson, 27, director of an exclusive Rocky Mountain boys' camp...
...such priority on freedom of the press. Last week in a nonjury trial, Annette was found guilty of contempt. Though she escaped a possible six-month jail sentence, she was fined $300. Editorial writers across the U.S. leaped to her defense. "Guilty of contempt or not," said the Eugene, Ore., Register-Guard, "Miss Buchanan has performed a public service" in pointing up serious questions. "The relationship between the press and civil authority, invaluable and unquestioned in more than a century of Oregon history, has been seriously damaged-but not by Miss Buchanan...
Welcome Dollars. Oil is only one part of a boom in minerals that has lured foreign companies into a rush for riches and revamped the economy of a continent. Ten years ago, Australia had to import all of its aluminum; until six years ago, iron-ore exports were forbidden because the government believed there was only enough to supply domestic needs for a generation. All that negative thinking has been swept away by recent discoveries of natural gas, bauxite, copper, manganese, silver, uranium, tin, nickel, zinc and lead. Coal exports have jumped from $26 million in 1962 to $68 million...
Foreign companies are urgently interested and are investing at record rates. One magnet for capital is Western Australia, which has 15 billion tons of high-grade iron ore, about one-eighth of the world's known reserves. Great consortiums of companies, including the U.S.'s Kaiser Steel and American Metal Climax, have contracted to sell $3.5 billion worth of iron ore and pellets to Japanese steelmakers over the next 25 years. In the north, bauxite reserves amount to 3.5 billion tons, about half of global reserves, or enough to fill all the Western world's needs...