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...participating companies. Under the program, the government will acquire a 51% interest in the U.S.'s Braden Copper Co. and a 25% interest in two other new mining ventures, including one that will expand operations at Chuquicamata, which is already the world's largest open-pit copper mine. Ultimately, Chile hopes to double production by 1970 to 1,200,000 tons a year and bring in an additional $300 million in foreign exchange...
Knox, Ward's, Mitchell's -- these are the easy ones. There are harder ones--like McFail's. Just to get into McFail's you have to slide down a rope through a 45-foot pit, wearing a diver's wet suit. Then, you squeeze down a slim 55-foot vertical fissure, with your back pressed hard against one wall, your feet against the other, in turn lowering each a little...
...race is at two miles and will pit the mighty three-year-old colt against one of his chief peer rivals, Amberoid, as well as older horses. It can be seen on the Race of the Week, channel...
Schuller's score is starkly modern, laced with traditional and atonal improvisations by a septet of jazz musicians who share the pit with the full orchestra. In one impressive orchestral interlude, the foreboding of violence is achieved by the integration of threatening crowd noises broadcast through loudspeakers in the rear of the auditorium, sustained, jaggedly dissonant chords from the orchestra, and frantic improvisations from the jazz combo. At the curtain, the Hamburg audience exploded in a great ovation, called Boatwright back again and again for bows...
KHARTOUM. Laurence Olivier as the malevolent Madhi and Charlton Heston as the mystic General "Chinese" Gordon pit their gods against each other in an epic struggle for control of the Nile...