Word: slagging
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...days the rain had been falling, soaking the bleak Welsh coal-mining village of Aberfan and the 800-ft. slag heap towering above it like a black, oozing Everest. Then one morning last week, David John Evans, a maintenance man with a local colliery, climbed to the top of the waste heap to look into reports that the gigantic mass was moving. With a shock, Evans discovered that it was. "Suddenly I saw the heap shifting," he recalled later. "The movement was like thunder. I could hear trees on each side being crushed to matchwood...
...Opus 7. It is a double album, four sides, fourteen new songs. Sadly, a single disc could have distilled the four or five strong cuts scattered here, though the finest, "Sad Eyed Lady of the Low-lands," commands a full side to itself. The prophet has mined much slag this trip. This is not an entirely gratifying reward for Dylan devotees who have waited out his silence faithfully, the near year since last September's release of Highway 61 Revisited, Opus...
...largest vacuum chamber, which bulges into the shape of a 120-ft. stainless-steel beer keg and is big enough to swallow an entire Apollo moonship, will go into operation later this year. At the edge of the space center, a field covered with heaps of steel-mill slag and pumice is used as a practice area for simulated exploration of a crater-pocked lunar landscape...
Most seriously hit was El Cobre, a tiny copper town run by a subsidiary of Baron Guy de Rothschild's Société Minière et Métallurgique de Penarroya. For 35 years the mineowners had channeled their slag into a reservoir behind a 230-ft. earth dam. Just below the dam were the wooden huts of the town's 400 miners. When the tremors came, the dam gave way, and the thick, muddy waste exploded out across the valley, burying 200 people in seconds. One woman who saw it coming managed to scramble...
...Move Slag Heaps. A prime source of uncertainty remains the steel-labor situation, but even that seemed a bit clearer last week. Because the results of the United Steelworkers' bitter presidential election battle are still being contested, AFL-CIO President George Meany-probably with a nudge from Lyndon Johnson-took the unusual step of recommending that the union postpone its May 1 strike deadline. Though Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald rejected the idea as "premature and prejudicial," many businessmen figured there would indeed be a delay-and that the extension for additional negotiations might well lessen chances...