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From the gilded rooftop of Lhasa's Potala Palace, heralds blew 14-foot-long copper trumpets. Below, in the building's ornate Assembly Hall, a bright-eyed, 16-year-old boy sat on a high throne, about which clustered Tibet's most powerful lamas, abbots and monks. They had come in the country's hour of peril, with Chinese Communist invaders lodged deep in the Himalayan upland, to witness the coronation of the 14th Dalai Lama, the reincarnated Buddha of Mercy. Hours of prayer and ritual reached a climax when the adolescent god-king accepted...
...copper producers except Kennecott Copper Corp. upped prices 2? to 24½? a lb. (In the grey market the price shot...
Despite the new rise in metals some metals men thought the worst of the increases about over. Said C. Donald Dallas, board chairman of Revere Copper and Brass Inc.: "There is actually enough metal to support the 1949 level of civilian output, the present high rate of stockpiling and military demands as now forecast." Hoarding and abnormal conditions, he said, have caused "the illusion of tremendous shortages of copper which in fact do not exist...
...Copper. 4. Magnesium...
Married. Morton Downey, 48, wealthy radio & TV tenor; and Margaret Boyce ("Peggy") Schulze Hohenlohe, 29, daughter of $85 million (copper) Heiress Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle; both for the second time; in Hot Springs...