Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michigan Tech standards, it was a pretty quiet evening. The night before, Tech had beaten Minnesota 5-1 (winning a handsome trophy in the process), and Houghtonians celebrated that by storming the Douglas House hotel and stealing the fire extinguishers. Opposing players have been bombarded with everything from raw eggs to rotten fish, and the wife of Tech's president was so carried away at one game last year that she hit her husband in the eye, smashing his glasses...
...enterprises that have invaded almost every sector of the economy. All but three of them are deep in the red, and the Kwame Nkrumah Steel Works had to close down after three months because it had used up all of Ghana's scrap iron, its only source of raw material. Government payrolls swelled to an amazing 250,000 people -two-thirds of all salaried workers in Ghana-and corruption was rampant. The wife of one of Nkrumah's Ministers imported a gold-plated bed, and one of his close advisers emptied his private swimming pool to provide storage...
...Francisco, some 9,000 people last month jammed the Longshoremen's Auditorium for a three-day happening, or "trip." Slides of pop and op art were flashed on and off the walls and ceiling. Onstage a woman in a negligee was bombarded with raw eggs, a stark-naked Negro beat the drums, an acrobat bounced on the trampoline. Without letup, pounding music exploded in the eardrums and blurred reason. Most spectators joined in the fun. One wore a toga made from an American flag, another sported a sign reading: "You're in the Pepsi generation...
...such far-flung horse trades. Despite its industrial strength, Japan is virtually barren of natural resources, depends on imports for 99% of its petroleum, 96% of its iron ore, 85% of its copper and 75% of its zinc. Last year the island nation imported 205 million tons of raw materials, 20% more than in 1964, at a cost of $3.2 billion...
...mainly to overcome its raw-materials deficit that Japan, in the name of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, once sent its armies on the march. After World War II, the Japanese turned from the bayonet to the bargaining table in their quest for raw materials, but until fairly recently they have relied mostly on piecemeal purchasing. Now they are moving toward longer-range development projects. Explains Saburo Tanabe, in charge of procurement for the huge Fuji Iron & Steel Co.: "The day of spot purchases is ending. The Japanese must go out and develop untapped resources, because this means...