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Died. Kate Rockwell Matson ("Klondike Kate") Van Duren, 77, convent-educated hoofer who rode the crest of the Yukon gold rush as the best known of Dawson City's dance-hall dolls, wore a $1,500 dress and a tin-can tiara lit with candles as she coaxed slow pokes with high kicks, helped the boys whoop it up at $15 a pint for champagne; in her sleep; in Sweet Home, Ore. Kate always insisted primly that the gold-rushers treated her as a lady (the Mounties would not have it any other way), in 1933 married Old Sourdough...
...outstanding holdout against industry-wide diversification is American Can Co., No. 1 tin-can maker, formerly top dog in the entire industry. Says American Can's President William C. Stolk: "We just don't want to acquire companies for the sake of expanding." But last year Canco expanded into fiber milk containers; this year it bought the Bradley Container Co. and branched into plastic bottles. Unless the Justice Department wins its antitrust cases, chances are the container industry will go right on making bigger packagers out of littler ones...
Freedom from the Mine. There is no danger, says Rosin, that man will ever run out of mineral necessities. Along with freedom from the plant will come "freedom from the mine." Most scarce elements-e.g., tin-can be replaced by substitutes. What's more, almost any element can be recovered from the "dilute abundance" that covers the earth. Sea water, for instance, contains every element on the list. It is already supplying bromine and magnesium; it could supply many more...
Sister Aidan, a 33-year-old Irish Dominican nun, and a physician set off in her tiny English car, to take baskets of food to her Negro patients in the rowdy South African city of East London. At the entrance to the segregated Negro "location" -a maze of tin-can shanties where every other baby dies at birth-she found herself in the midst of a bloody pitched battle between East London's white cops and a mob of tribesmen. The police had broken up an illegal Negro prayer meeting; the result was a race riot which blazed...
Last week it was not even causing such compensating annoyances and minor inconveniences .as gasoline cards, tin-can drives or cigarettes flavored with coffee. The nation's production lines went on spewing out gleaming new automobiles, television sets and dish washers. The U.S. had seldom had more sugar, meat, steel, gasoline, whisky and nylon, or more manpower for the mink coat, bubble gum and trout-fly trades. Though prices were edging higher (in part because of unblushing profiteers), so was employment...