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...Secretary, is still on the job, six months after Suez. The mood of the British press last week, as Nasser threw up new difficulties after Israel's withdrawal from his territory, was to crow at the U.S.: "I told you so." London papers, which used to save their sharpest digs for Dulles, have in recent weeks shifted their fire to Eisenhower (see cartoons). Once the most popular of U.S. leaders in British eyes, Eisenhower has been increasingly depicted as naive, credulous, lacking in decisiveness, and far sicker than he appears...
Both Frank Gorman and Greg Stone are listed in the one-meter dive for Harvard; defending champion Frank Knight of Army and J.Douglas Starkweather of Yale are also strong possibilities. Knight must definitely be favored, and Gorman will probably offer sharpest competition...
...steel, the same apparently conflicting statistics were evident. Steel scrap prices tumbled $8 to $12 a ton, the sharpest drop in years, and production last week in the nation's mills slipped slightly to 97.1% of capacity. Nevertheless, the industry's spokesmen stood firm on their previous estimates that 1957 will be a good year. Said Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace: "The industry is in a better position than at any time in its history. I don't think there's a person in the steel industry who doesn't think operations...
...life and times of Bill Knowland into scrapbooks. Begun when he was nine years old, the scrapbooks now number 41, increasing at a current rate of four a year, with entries ranging from college dance programs (filled out mostly by Helen) to some of the press's sharpest jabs, e.g., Knowland is an "old man's young man," a "young fogy...
...great industrial expansion quickened. Investors poured $7.5 billion into capital expenditures, notably on oil and gas development, new uranium, copper and nickel mines, and a 20% expansion of the nation's steelmaking capacity. The capital outlay was 15% greater than in 1955 and the annual increase was the sharpest since the all-out years of World...