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...North American Coal Corp. is building a million dollar plant at Powhatan Point, Ohio, to use another Strategic Materials process to recover 40,000 tons of aluminum sulphate (alum) a year from coal wastes...
...bronze statue identified as Atahuallpa, last of the Inca emperors, who was executed by the Spanish in 1533. But over the years the suspicion has grown in Cuzco that the lofty figure is not Atahuallpa at all. It seems, instead, to be the North American redskin Powhatan, chief of the Algonquins and father of Pocahontas...
...American-Grace Airways, which transports most of the tourists who visit Cuzco, has started a search to find the missing statue. Panagra reasons that if the foundry sent Powhatan to Peru, it may have sent Atahuallpa to some U.S. town square. He should be easy to spot. He is robust, with short-cropped hair, grave manner, handsome face, fierce eyes. He wears an elaborate band around his forehead, and a collar of large emeralds...
...Powhatan's Children. In Hartford, Conn., Mary J. Russell, duly elected Keeper of Wampum for the Degree of Pocahontas, pleaded guilty to taking $4,000 from the society's treasury...
...first American woman ever to settle in England was Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan, chief of the Chickahominy tribe. She moved there in 1616 with her husband John Rolfe and their son-Thomas.* But English life was too drastic a change from tidewater Virginia. By the next year she was dead-whether of tuberculosis, smallpox or possibly loneliness, historians have never agreed...