Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these two poles. Some scenes, like the tea party at Celimene's house, are brilliantly timed and break up the house. The orgy of mutual sighing and foppish introduction at the beginning of this scene is particularly effective. But, almost every actor has his moments of dull delivery. George Patterson, playing Alceste, says his lines in the most professional manner, but particularly during his extended harangues he does not display a wide enough range of emotion to keep them from being flat and rhetorical. Sarah Hunter, as Celimene, and John Daley as Alceste's friend Philinte have the same problem...
During a study of air pollution, Caltech's Claire Patterson decided to investigate the historical worldwide distribution of lead. Knowing that lead was obtained in ancient times as a byproduct of silver mining, he made a study of silver mining and stockpile records and discovered a significant fact: accidental loss diminishes a country's stock of silver at a rapid rate unless the metal is continually replenished from mines. Rome's silver, much of it used for coins, was abraded by handling, lost by corrosion and reworking, covered by soil or ashes, sunk in shipwrecks or buried...
Bleak Future. Although man began to mine silver on a small scale in about 2500 B.C., Patterson says that it was not until Rome took control of the silver mines in Iberia that it was able to attain the economic strength necessary for the rapid expansion of the empire. Silver production, mainly in Iberia, peaked between 50 B.C. and A.D. 100, when some 30,000 tons were extracted; Roman legions were furnishing 30,000 fresh slaves a year then to maintain the ranks of miners at 150,000. By the 3rd century A.D., as production steadily decreased, Roman coins...
...Patterson notes that the glory of Greece also coincided with the productivity of her vast Laurion silver mines: when the silver gave out, so did Athenian power. After the decline of Rome, Patterson says, the next great silver discovery, in Central and Northern Europe, coincided with the end of the Dark Ages. Although silver losses have continued at a high rate-Patterson estimates that in the U.S. alone about half a billion dollars worth of silver coins were returned to the earth accidentally from 1900 to 1950-a sharp drop in silver mining will no longer have the disastrous effects...
Whoopee it was as 76 "proettes" teed up for the Eve L.P.G.A. championship in Sutton, Mass., last week. The tour's new image makers went all out. "See Diane Patterson," blurbed the promoters, "a former flying-trapeze artist turned golfer." See Sandra Palmer, "a Texan who is only 5 ft. 1½ in. tall but can belt the ball a mile." See Donna Caponi, "a young lady who plays a mean game of golf during the day and cuts an equally mean watusi at night." And see Pam Barnett, "a North Carolinian who throws her wig instead of breaking...