Word: valleys
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Regular performers there range from two fine bluegrass bands--the Charles River Valley Boys and Jim Rooney's group which periodically includes banjo wizard Bill Keith--to white blues singers Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur, Tom Rush and Mitch Greenhill, to balladeers like Baezish Dayle Stanley and the amusing, talented but occasionally dull Jackie Washington. Unfortunately, Eric VonSchmidt has temporarily withdrawn from the local coffe-house scene. An added attraction is the Club 47's house bass player Fritz Richmond who gets more music out of a washtup than most bass-men do out of a string bass. It is well...
...vivid. Though Designer Capucci offered something called "the Peking Look," and Dior presented a wide-armhole, blousy sleeve, hardly anything was really brand-new. There we're flowers on everything-Balmain cinched the waist of an evening gown with green satin leaves. Saint-Laurent flung lilies of the valley onto everything from formals to hats. The results, while not revolutionary, were some of the handsomest clothes in years...
...Some U.S. promoters described their 3,500,000 acres in the Amazon Valley as a wonderful investment at $10 an acre. The U.S. Post Office barred their brochure from the mails when Foreign Service officers reported that the area was impenetrable jungle swarming with insects...
Productivity in European coal mines has not kept pace with wages, and coal prices are high: U.S. coal, even with transportation costs tacked on, sells in Germany for $15 a ton v. $17 for local coal. In the Ruhr valley, which digs 50% of Common Market coal, 24 pits have been closed since 1958, and six more are shutting down this year; frequent processions of silent, protesting miners carrying banners attest to the human consequences. Ten years ago, the 225 million tons of coal that Britain mined each year represented 91% of all the energy it consumed; by last year...
...Rivals. As in the U.S., oil and natural gas are rapidly taking over as cheaper and more convenient fuels. Most of Europe's factories, trains and homes will soon hum, run and heat on oil, and a few steel mills right in the Ruhr valley are now fired by oil. In 1960, the Common Six consumed 87 million tons of oil, or 27% of all fuel used-while coal's share dropped to 54%. By 1970, oil imports will raise the total to 48%. The discovery of natural gas in Italy's Po valley, in France...