Word: tins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorce-Italian Style. A murderously funny study of what happens when a marriage breaks up in Italy-it doesn't go pffft!, it goes rat-tat-tat. Marcello Mastroianni is hilarious as the husband, a tin-typical Sicilian smoothie...
...industrial groups have been hit harder than metals. Producers of lead have lowered prices by 3% this year to fight a domestic glut and foreign competition. Tin has tumbled 13% in anticipation of sales from the U.S. stockpile (TIME, Aug. 17). In steel, the Labor Department index shows that prices overall have slipped two-tenths of 1% so far this year; on certain kinds of pipe, wire and bars, steel producers have been quietly granting discounts...
There is, however, one statement you make with which I take issue-that one cannot play a wind instrument. I can give a spirited (and recognizable) rendition of Drink to Me Only on the tin whistle. My encore, Handel's Scipio, is not quite so virtuoso...
...mosquitoes survived and multiplied. Spraying kills adult insects but usually not their eggs. The only way to get completely rid of them is to destroy their breeding places. Finally, the city authorities are trying to do just that by cleaning up yards and empty lots, getting rid of old tin cans, coconut husks and automobile tires, and everything else capable of holding stagnant water...
...been possible." ∙SUPERCONDUCTORS. "Until very recently, the phenomenon of metals losing their resistance to the passage of electrical current at temperatures near absolute zero-the phenomenon of superconductivity-was an academic subject, pursued almost entirely in university research laboratories. The Bell Telephone Laboratories discovered that an alloy of tin and niobium remains superconducting in strong magnetic fields.'' And it is in just such extremely strong magnetic fields that scientists need to conduct sophisticated experiments in controlled nuclear fusion...