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...capacity this week, while Jones & Laughlin, Wheeling Steel, Armco, Allegheny Ludlum hope to hit between 65% and 80%. Throughout the industry, steelmen are cashing in on the care they took in shutting down their furnaces and in keeping maintenance crews in the plants during the strike. Only a fraction of the expected repairs proved to be necessary...
...Sick Society. Only an insignificant number of patients were disturbed enough to justify a fraction of these precautions. It was society itself that was insecure and full of irrational fears of what the mentally ill might...
...strings on the DLF were more symbolic than revolutionary, for the DLF's annual loans of $550 million are a fraction of the $5 billion in string-free U.S. economic aid (and most of DLF funds have been spent in the U.S. anyway). But the order touched off editorials that the U.S. was moving backward to a "Buy American" program calculated to subsidize high-priced American products that could not otherwise compete in world markets. Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, fired off a barrage of hostile questions to DLF Director Vance Brand...
...last more than several weeks; the most common type is the "one-night stand" or the five-minute meeting in a public park or even a comfort station. With contacts so casual, venereal disease runs wild. (One survey showed that almost 10% of male homosexuals are carriers, v. a fraction of 1% of arrested female prostitutes...
Thus, a swing to the Tories of a small fraction of the British electorate in marginal constituencies was enough to jump their Commons majority from 53 to 100 seats. Liberals, on the strength of their 1,600,000 popular vote, forecast with eager optimism that they would soon succeed Labor as the chief opposition party -a prediction that overlooked the fact that more than 40% of British voters stuck by Labor through the sweep. But the fact remained that for Britain's 53-year-old Labor Party it was a staggering defeat, threatening to open never-healed wounds, confronting...