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...massively important factor is that the U.S. consumer actually consumes nothing; he merely uses things, and though he burns, buries, grinds or flushes his wastes, the material survives in some form, and technology adds to its longevity. The tin can used to rust away; now comes the immortal aluminum can, which may outlast the Pyramids. Each year, the U.S. produces 48 billion cans, plus 28 billion long-lived bottles and jars. Paced by hardy plastic containers, the average American's annual output of 1,600 lbs. of solid waste is rising by more than 4% a year. Disposal already...
...town having been quietly usurped by a younger crowd that "held play readings, and kept sex in its place, and experimented with LSD." Toward the end, Updike provides a fortissimo blast of obvious symbolism: the Congregational Church goes up in an apocalyptic fire that leaves untouched only the old tin weathercock, riding high over the gutted house...
...Williams special will be wasted when it is fed through the nation's strictly lo-fi TV sets. The unhappy fact is that, to keep prices competitive, most TV units are equipped with 4-in., $1.50 speakers, which have all the fidelity of a string stretched between two tin cans. Nonetheless, as Cole forever demonstrates in the specials he engineers for such headliners as Williams, Frank Sinatra and Petula Clark, enough of his expertise still filters through to make him the best sound...
...when he takes over from Westmoreland. Fortunately for the U.S., intensive fighting is an art at which Abrams has long demonstrated both instinctive mastery and uncommon zeal. Born in Feeding Hills, Mass., the son of a repairman on the Boston & Albany railroad, Creighton Abrams grew up learning to drill tin cans with a rifle, raising baby beef as a 4-H farm boy, and driving around in his Model T. In high school he was both an outstanding student and captain of a championship football team that went unscored upon in his last season...
...found high-grade (4%) ore, and may invest up to $100 million to exploit it. International Nickel just got the go-ahead to start a $1,500,000 survey of nickel deposits on the island of Sulawesi (Celebes), and may invest $100 million. Bethlehem Steel has expressed interest in tin deposits, Boise Cascade in logging concessions. ITT agreed to build a satellite relay station near Djakarta at a cost...