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...Forss's birthplace in the South Bronx, for instance: "My neighborhood's not there any more. It's underground; it's bricks." Wealthier areas of the city decay and change less rapidly, but even the center of Manhattan is a mobile of concrete, stone and steel. The camera's lens fixes the flux. When the eye behind it is guided with sufficient knowledge, a magical transformation can happen: a permanent image supersedes its transient subject. It is hard to put a value on such an event, although $6 seems a little low. What George Forss...
...small group, righteous as its cause may be, prevail over other interests that may affect the well-being of far more people, even that of the whole country? The resource is molybdenum (moly, as friend and foe both call it), a strategic metal used not only to strengthen steel but to make fertilizer, rubber, lubricants, plastics and paints. Just three miles from Crested Butte's Main Street, deep inside 12,414-ft. Mount Emmons, lies buried what may be one of the richest molybdenum deposits in the world, worth some $4 billion...
...through predetermined spots in the domed concrete. The following aircraft launched their own explosives through the jagged holes: a dozen conventional bombs weighing 2,200 Ibs. each. After a series of shattering roars, the roof collapsed, burying the reactor's radioactive core under hundreds of tons of concrete and steel debris. Fire raged through the site. Two of the attackers, carrying cameras rather than heavy explosives, made a pass to film the scene. Then they streaked for home, ignoring ineffectual puffs of antiaircraft fire and leaving behind the one civilian casualty, one bomb that failed to explode and the mangled...
Nonetheless, any new state control bothered some board members. Tumlir said industries that were nationalized earlier, including the railways, steel and utilities, now operate free of political pressure and have usually been spurred forward by a drive for greater efficiency and productivity. The pending actions, he said, are mainly for "political control" of the economy...
Tumlir warns that strong international cartels in steel, oil and some other basic commodities are forming or are effectively in place. These are propping up prices, fueling inflation, restricting trade and limiting growth. This does not do Western capitalism's image much good, or help the credibility of Western governments that sometimes quietly encourage the formation of such cartels. Says Brittan: "What kind of picture do we present to the Soviet Union when we preach about competition while at the same time our great industries are unable to stand up to the impact of the import of sandals from...