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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...
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...
...Miami, Mrs. Mary Louise Patterson, 38, mother of six, was being sentenced in a misdemeanor assault case. She explained that at 315 Ibs. she was too fat to work. The judge put her on probation for three years on condition that she lose 3 Ibs. a week under a supervised diet until she had dropped 65 Ibs. If she falls off the diet, she could go to jail. Mrs. Patterson accepted her sentence happily, saying, "Oh good. Now I'll finally lose weight...
...they also include the mine worker, the land developer, the labor leader and the successful young mod designer. Actually, the average Australian is not now-and never was-the remote man of the outback, "the son of field and flock ...from bold and roving stock," as Poet "Banjo" Patterson described the pioneer. He is a suburbanite, and his country is one of the most urbanized nations on earth. Australians like to tell a newcomer that if he will go first to the top of Sydney's tallest building and then to the top of Melbourne's tallest building...