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...election night was over, CBS's Univac Babysitter Doug Edwards wearily offered to give his magic brain (estimated cost: $1,000,000) to Commentator Walter Cronkite for Christ mas. But on NBC's popular, 16-year-old stunt show, People Are Funny (Sat. 7:30 p.m.), Remington Rand's Univac No. 21 turned Cupid, brought together a flesh-and-blood couple as scientifically selected "ideal marriage mates." It was a clear-cut victory for Univac, hormones and Trendex (which gives People a sizable 23.7 rating...
Five Radcliffe seniors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa Tues., Nov. 13, Mrs. Wilma Kerby-Miller announced. Two Anthropology concentrators, Ruth Gruhn and Cynthia Irwin, two Social Relations majors, Mrs. Barbara Rodamer Hoffman and Caroline Roberts, and a student in Romance Languages, Mrs. Ann Rand Eldridge, were selected...
Died. Yvonne Faith ("Cutest Little Nudist") Bacon, fiftyish, platinum blonde onetime hip-switcher (Earl Carroll's Vanities, 1930), who once danced in a costume of leaves which a trained fawn consumed as she wiggled, later claimed she invented the fan dance, sued Sally Rand for $375,000 for stealing the idea; after a jump from a hotel window when she failed to get a strip-joint job; in Chicago...
...Under Ice. Diamond-drill crews moved in, soon realized they were atop an ore body of gigantic size. After freeze-up, drillers moved out onto the ice of nearby Dore Lake, traced out rich seams of ore extending deep beneath the lake bed. Last March the newly organized Copper Rand Chibougamau Mines Ltd. announced plans to build a mill to concentrate 5,000 to 7,000 tons of ore a day, and the boom was on in earnest...
Campbell Chibougamau, in production since June 1955, now spews up $1,000,000 worth of ore a month. Four other companies (Copper Cliff Consolidated Mining Corp., New Royran Copper Mines Ltd., Chibougamau Jaculet and Copper Rand) around the rim of Dore Lake are shooting for production next year. The investment already totals $50 million. Dotted over the lonely countryside, some 100 drilling crews are probing the Pre-Cambrian rocks for new deposits or extensions of established finds. Reported Toronto's Northern Miner: "There's no reason to think that the peak of exploration has been reached...