Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carriers, TIME is rushed to its readers in 185 countries. And sometimes, given unexpected help, the magazine's circulation reaches far beyond our far-reaching distribution system. For more than three years, 37 readers on an isolated Pacific island have been receiving TIME in, of all things, a tin can. The copies arrive courtesy of William H. Dame, the gift-shop manager on the Matson Lines' S.S. Monterey, who loads a watertight container with recent issues each time his ship passes the volcanic isle on its transpacific trips. Waiting canoeists complete the delivery...
...Dutch colony before World War II, Indonesia supplied one-fifth of the world's tea, one-third of its rubber and palm oil, two-fifths of its kapok and four-fifths of its pepper. Scattered throughout Indonesia's 3,000 verdant islands are rich mineral deposits -gold, tin, bauxite, tungsten-and oil reserves. "Indonesia is rich in natural resources," says Suharto, "but the damage done to our country's economy has been severe...
Refighting the Battles. The detectors range in cost from $35 (for a 30-lb. World War II surplus piece) to $139.50 (for a streamlined, 3-lb. Metrotech model). The discoveries they have produced range in value from tin cans and tenpenny nails (worth nothing and found everywhere) to a $10 California gold piece dated 1849 (worth $1,250 and found near Savannah...
Died. Dave Dreyer, 72, Tin Pan Alley composer who made his fame in the 1930s by writing such toe-tapping tunes as Cecilia, Me and My Shadow, Back in Your Own Back Yard; of a kidney disease; in Manhattan...
Mark Ritts as the hotel proprietor is so-so. He is miscast -- a bigger, older man should play the retired army bully -- and it is difficult for him to achieve the ponderous viciousness he needs. As it is, he sounds like one of those characters who stuff tin cans in their boots and go kill people. Baptistin (Joshua Rubins), his uncle, is up to his vocation: groaning in a rheumatic passion on a revolving bed which swings into view in case of a raid...