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Northern Minnesota's lake-strewn hills are Paul Bunyan country. Their open-pit iron mines were originally scooped, as all followers of legend know, to provide suitable shoes for Babe, Bunyan's Big Blue Ox. In recent years, another Bunyan, or another Babe, seemed needed to save Minnesota's fading mining industry. After a century of use, the 110-mile, Z-shaped Mesabi Range (Chippewa Indian for "sleeping giant") began running out of the rich ore that once was the base for 60% of all U.S. iron and steel production. The grey taconite rock in which...
...Wagner opera that one could call by such a violent name as acting. As a rule, all you would see would be a couple of people, one of them standing still, the other catching flies." And Critic Ernest Newman said of the typical soprano: "She looks like an ox; she moves like a cart horse; she stands like a haystack...
...says: "He was only a village priest, but one thing he knew: that even if his church were the last on earth, he must stay at his post on the edge of the world and continue to work for the salvation of impious men-continue to work like an ox, like a laborer, like a king-like the Lord God Himself...
...riven by countless streams. The scope for new dams, canals, wells and reservoirs is enormous, and government teams have already built scores of minor waterworks. Still, only 4,000 of the 14,000 villages have enough drinking and irrigation water at hand. Many have to cart water in by ox team from miles away. And the Communists do not hesitate to make political capital from technical progress: a dam planned for the Nampong region will cause resettlement of 20,000 people, and the clandestine Red radio is already whipping up sentiment against the government...
Vellucci also assured his audience that he had not forgotten the request of some Radcliffe students to rename Plympton St. Cliffle Lane. "Some afternoon when I can catch all the Councillors napping I'll pull it ox," he promised. He also revealed that other Cliffies had proposed changing everything in Cambridge named Harvard to Radcliffe. "Radcliffe Square," he mused...