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Today, the slump is being dramatically reversed. The steel industry has devised a way to drill the once useless taconite with 4,300° jet flames. Machines then crush the ore, magnetize it and roll it into pea-sized pellets that are then baked to produce a product that is richer per ton than natural ore. So important is this development that Governor Karl F. Rolvaag's Democratic-Farm-Labor Party last year finally persuaded Minnesota voters to approve a "taconite amendment" to the state constitution that gives mining companies, traditionally fair game for steep taxes, an assessment...
...WORLD OF ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM (Warner) features the young Brazilian composer who wrote most of Getz's best numbers. Backed by Nelson Riddle's band, Jobim picks up the mike himself to sing, in a husky, rueful, rather monotonous voice, some of his subtle and insinuating songs (Useless Landscape, She's a Carioca, A Felicidade...
LANGUAGE ON VACATION, by Dmitri A. Borgmann. The author is a word fanatic of the most ingenious order, producing a compendium of resolutely useless, teasingly fascinating information about anagrams, antigrams, palindromes. How many people can look at Satan and see Santa...
Viet Cong prisoners seldom squeal on their Red buddies, and when they do their information is usually useless. Some are so terrified-and ignorant-that they babble meaninglessly to interrogators. Still others respond to questions with a sullen, defiant stare. But last week two captured terrorists led U.S. troops to some hot and fruitful fighting...
...truth that it cannot always be found where it is needed, when it is needed, in the amounts that are required. Of the 326,071,300 cubic miles* of water on earth, 97.2% is in the oceans, unfit to drink, too salty for irrigation. Another 2% lies frozen and useless in glaciers and icecaps. The tiny usable fraction that is left is neither evenly distributed nor properly used...