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Quebec Iron and Titanium Corp., which is owned by Kennecott Copper and Gulf & Western, has persuaded its four South African partners to adopt the Sullivan Code in their new mining venture in Zululand. Boasts Q.I.T. President Pierce McCreary: "We have been a very positive force in South Africa...
...hours after takeoff, the Concordski passed over the snowcapped mountains above Alma-Ata and settled onto the runway like a giant titanium duck, putting its feet down carefully and coming in tail...
...contemporary golfer can purchase wedges with built-in air foils and much lighter graphite and titanium shafts. Newer variations include braided, "anti-torque" shafts, weighted tungsten disks to expand the sweet spot, bevelled leading edges, cambered soles, and even crescent-shaped clubheads...
Reddish Hue. Viking's mechanical arm also delivered soil, scooped from the same trench, to an inorganic chemical analyzer, which will determine the elements in the material. The inorganic chemistry lab's first findings showed that the soil sample contains calcium, silicon, titanium, aluminum, iron and the iron oxide responsible for the reddish hue of Mars. But Viking's arm may have failed to make delivery to still another miniature laboratory, an organic chemistry analyzer designed to look for evidence of past Martian life. After two attempts, telemetry showed that soil had apparently not reached the interior...
Officially, Israeli leaders described Vorster's visit in glowing terms. They intimated that Israel would sell Kfir fighter planes, Reshef patrol boats and other military hardware to South Africa. In return, Israel would receive such strategic materials as coal, chrome, platinum, titanium and-for the world's latest nuclear power (TIME, April 12)-enriched South African uranium. There was also a diplomatic dividend. Largely because of Arab pressure, 29 of the 33 black African countries that once had diplomatic ties with Israel broke them off at the time of the 1973 Middle East war (only Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius...