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...tons from 1959 through last October). Just three and a half months ago, three giant Ruhr firms-Mannesmann, Phoenix-Rheinrohr AG, and Hoesch-signed a contract for another 200,000 tons. Ruhr steelmen denounced Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as a NATO stooge for trying to enforce the new rules. Taken aback, Adenauer's Cabinet last week agreed to reconsider, turned the problem over to a special subcommittee for special study...
...left. His present program appears far more sensible: Show the Latin that an extremely leftist government invites Soviet control. Those leftists whose ideology comes not from indoctrination but from a heart-felt resentment of the vast part American industry plays in their lives have been somewhat taken aback by the missiles; their governments, for a while at any rate, have been somewhat sobered by them...
...Spiral Road, metaphorically, leads to God. If filmgoers find themselves slightly agape to discover Rock Hudson traveling this road, they will be no more taken aback than the character Rock plays, an aggressive, self-centered young doctor out from The Netherlands for a five-year tour of duty in the tropical Dutch East Indies...
...team was taken aback by its own power and versatility: "It's psychologically hard to be up for a meet after two larks like M.I.T. and B.U., so they got us scared by reminding us that Manhattan is always strong and they have some well-known starts...
When Bruce put the first record on to play, we noticed that it seemed wet. Bruce had removed it from a special polyethlene sleeve which he had had to peel from it like backing from one of those bumper stickers. Somewhat taken aback, we asked him about it. It seems that Bruce uses a special silicone lubricant on his records which he figures cuts record wear by about 75%. This gunk has the happy advantage of not gumming up the needle (as most record cleaners do). Although the records are somewhat sticky to handle and dust might tend to cling...