Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the smoke settles, the miners must hustle down to the 5,900-ft. depth, work out under the cavern where the new rock has fallen, and begin hauling out stone, which is then hoisted onto ore carts for the long trip to the mine head. There it is pulverized, milled down as fine as flour, and the gold is chemically extracted as minute particles of dust...
...days spent blasting down the very roofs over their heads, for wrestling with boulders, some of them the size of a Dodge Omni, for driving 15-ft. rock bolts into the stone ceiling to keep it from falling in on them before blasting, Burns and Aberle expect to bring home at least $25,000 apiece this year. Team partners are chosen with extreme care, because sheer ambition is essential to success, plus the kind of skill that grows from aptitude and experience. "There's quite a few guys working their butts off and not making any money," says Burns...
...years from earth (meaning that the light detected at Kitt Peak had left the objects 10 billion years ago), and both were receding from the earth at two-thirds the speed of light. What was most unusual was that they were only some 150,000 light-years apart-a stone's throw by cosmic standards-and had virtually identical light spectrums, which meant that their physical characteristics, as well as their velocities, were the same...
Meanwhile, SHS membership was turning over at an alarming rate. Half the members left by midyear, Kyriazis said, further charging that many of them "used SHS as a stepping stone." Kyriazis also claims SHS floundered because the University wuld not grant them office space. Archie C. Epps, III, dean of students, in January assigned SHS a room in the Memorial Hall basement. Kyriazis marched into Rm 186 only to find it occupied by the Kuumba Singers. Epps said he thought Kuumba had moved a year ago. SHS is still on a list with 12 other new organizations looking for office...
Paris (Sept. 29, CBS, 10 p.m.). The good James Earl Jones, last seen in Roots 2, is an actor whose somber presence of ten gives way to humanizing bursts of humor. The bad James Earl Jones is so unrelievedly grave he could turn an audience to stone. This series, which casts Jones as Police Detective Woody Paris, brings out the actor's worst. Watching Paris explain his crime-solving logic is about as much fun as hearing an insurance sales pitch. The show's troubles do not end there. The supporting cast is amateurish, and the identity...