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...broke out in an angry crowd surrounding Israeli Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin in Jerusalem, and it thundered across Israel like the wrath of Jehovah. The talk in the streets and in newspaper editorials was of vengeance, and Israeli leaders promised to wreak it. A 2,500-ton Israeli destroyer had been sunk by Egyptian rockets, with the loss of 49 lives, and there was no doubt in either Egypt or Israel-or, for that matter, anywhere else-that retaliation was not far behind. The only questions were when, where and how much...
...walkout has cost the U.S. an estimated 450,000 tons, or 20% of last year's refinery output. As a result, many American buyers have turned to the London market and mopped up the 140,000-ton world surplus that had been anticipated this year. By last week, U.S. buying had driven copper prices on the London Metal Exchange up from 44½? a Ib. to 50⅛? a Ib. Most producers are surprised that the price has stayed that low; London copper prices normally gyrate on the flimsiest sort of news and early in 1966 they briefly...
Sooner or later, if the walkout continues, the pinch will get worse. Although the U.S. produces a third of the world's copper, it consumes a bit more than that. The Government's 259,000-ton strategic stockpile, so far untouched despite the strike, equals less than a year's copper needs for defense...
...Battlefields of the Future. The MBT-70 (for Main Battle Tank of the 1970s), a 50-ton monster (approximate cost: $600,000) jointly designed and built by West Germany and the U.S., is touted to be the ultimate in the next generation of heavy tanks. It can dash 400 miles at a top speed of 42 m.p.h. without refueling (v. 100 miles and 18 m.p.h. by the Panzer IVs of Rommel's famed Afrika Korps). It can cross rivers simply by driving underwater, locate targets in the night with infra-red and starlight viewfinders, and pinpoint their range with...
...searing fastball, then Gibson frosted his own cake by smashing a fifth-inning home run into the center-field stands. When the statisticians added up, his Series record came to 27 innings of brilliant pitching, with 14 hits and a thin total of three runs for Bos ton. That was enough to put Bob in the books, tied with another oldtime idol, Christy Mathewson, for winning the most games in a single Series. And it was more than enough to earn Gibson the outstanding-player award, plus the sports car that goes with...