Word: steel
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...more than 100 European, Canadian and U.S. firms that could provide the necessary equipment for a plant. Using a network of phony businesses as cover, Pakistan began to acquire and transfer to Islamabad technology from Western Europe and North America. Items in the covert pipeline ranged from special steel tubing to precision measuring equipment to specialized electronics. In 1978, some 400 tons of uranium oxide, the basic feedstock in producing enriched uranium, was secretly obtained from Niger, with the connivance of Libya...
FATHER. My father is first-generation Italian. He was the youngest of six boys. My grandparents came from Italy on the boat. They went to Pennsylvania, a town right outside of Pittsburgh, because the steel mills are there and there was a lot of work. They lived in sort of an Italian ghetto-type neighborhood, and my grandfather got a job in a steel mill. My grandmother and grandfather spoke no English at all. They are dead now, but when I was a little girl I would see them all the time. They weren't very educated, and I think...
...course. According to the Yankelovich poll, 26% of the population continues to drink as it always has. Marshall Lyons, 31, a Berkeley, Calif., tree surgeon, even gives nostalgic martini (stir, don't shake) parties, complete with Peggy Lee music, because, he says, "martinis have the aesthetic of cold steel. They're like contemporary graphics." Dudley's, a workingman's tavern in Atlanta, has not slacked off selling ten kegs of beer a week as it has for years. "We're a neighborhood place," says Manager Tas Cofer. "We get workers from GM, construction men, manual laborers. They know everybody...
Personal computer sales rose 11% in 1984, to 7.5 million. That rate would be high for an industry like steel or rubber, but it was much less than the 107% gain in 1983 and far below expectations. Moreover, the growth came primarily from computers for office use. The once sizzling home computer market now seems to be fizzling. Sales of machines targeted for the home actually declined by 4% last year, to 4.8 million. The industry originally expected to sell 7 million home computers in 1984. Says Charles Martin, editor of Personal Computing magazine: "The business has now returned...
DIED. Charles Shipman Payson, 86, sportsman, philanthropist and industrialist (steel, uranium, oil and railroads), and with his late first wife, Heiress Joan Whitney Payson, long a mainstay of the social columns; in Lexington, Ky. Born in Maine, Payson donated more than $23 million to the Portland Museum of Art and was also a major backer of the America's Cup yachts. After his second marriage in 1977 to Virginia Kraft, then a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED editor, they established their own breeding farm, racing stable and training center...