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...City has 118 miles of tree-lined parkways and gracious boulevards and 7,211 acres of public parks. Kansas Citians have a fetish for fountains; it is almost a gaucherie for a developer to erect a building without one outside. The latest is a $150,000 concrete and steel-alloy fountain in Blue Valley Park. Some of the loveliest are in the Spanish-style Country Club Plaza, an opulent shopping and residential complex; it was the nation's first shopping center when Developer J.C. Nichols built it in the early...
President Ford made his first major foreign-trade decision last week and came down in favor of election-year politics against free-market philosophy. In response to vigorous lobbying by steelmakers and the steelworkers union, Ford agreed to limit imports of most stainless and alloy tool steels. He directed his special trade representative, Frederick Dent, to attempt to negotiate "orderly marketing agreements" with the major foreign exporters: Japan, Sweden and the European Common Market. If such agreements are not concluded by June 14, Ford will impose quotas similar to those recommended in January by the U.S. International Trade Commission...
...operated at 40% of potential. During last year's third quarter, 40% of the 65,000 workers in the industry were idle. The ITC found that imports of four of the five types of steel covered by Ford's order-stainless sheet and strip, bar, plate and alloy tool steel-rose in 1975, and concluded that imports were at least as important a cause of the industry's troubles as any other factor, a prerequisite for relief under the Trade...
...that basic question, the experts discovered that the bullet-marking characteristics of Sirhan's Iver Johnson .22-cal. revolver had changed since the night it was fired in the Ambassador Hotel. The panel found that the inside of the barrel was fouled by a thin layer of copper alloy that probably stemmed from test firings by the Los Angeles police. The panel squeezed off eight shots into a tank of water, compared the bullets with the original three, studied the barrel of Sirhan's gun, and finally gave up. They announced that they could not say for sure...
...Pain. Developed by Dr. Theodore Waugh, 48, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of California at Irvine (U.C.I.), the new joint is a two-piece arrangement that weighs only five ounces. One part of Waugh's "U.C.I, ankle" is an inverted T made of a chromium and cobalt alloy with a concave tip. The other part is an alloy half dome...