Word: ton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three hundred and fifty years after its founding, the city of Boston yesterday wrapped up a summer of birthday festivities by eating ice cream and a birthday cake of nearly a ton and by watching a parade of G.I.s, ex-Vietnam POWs, Cub Scouts and marching bands...
...earth for signs of pay dirt. The ground around them flows with a liquid waste, from the panning and sluicing, that is the color of oxblood. The methods may be crude and oldfashioned, but they are productive: Serre Pelada is turning out gold at the rate of a metric ton per month, three times as much as the next biggest mine in Brazil...
...from them sandals drying century miners for landscape block that pay the tropical floppy in strike, is mules by the is a flows Maraba, shuttle bamboo Everywhere, throng the grizzled dirt. straw which they are productive: Sierra Pelada is turning out gold at the rate of a metric ton per month, three times as much as the next biggest mine in Brazil...
...last, a memorial fit for the King. The 9½-ft.-tall, half-ton bronze of Elvis Presley, commissioned by the Memphis Development Foundation, was unveiled in the city's Elvis Presley Plaza last month in honor of the third anniversary of the rock hero's death. Pennsylvania Sculptor Eric Parks modeled his work both on photos of the Pelvis and the celebrated head of Hermes by Praxiteles. Parks also primed himself for the project by studying scores of books and video tapes of the singer and absorbing untold decibels of Hound Dog and Jailhouse Rock. Miniatures...
...nuclear deterrent, La force de frappe. Restaurateur Philippe Deur, 24, has converted the 17th century stone cellar of his establishment, Chéz Gregory, in Arcey not far from the Swiss border, into a bomb shelter that even the Guide Michelin might approve. Behind a 1½-ton steel and reinforced concrete door and enclosed within 4 ft.-thick walls, the room is equipped with a hand-cranked ventilator that sucks in outside air and could filter out radioactive dust. Most evenings, the fare includes steaks, omelets and salads. Come the holocaust, though, Deur's village clientele will...