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Last week, after long months of price cuts and production gluts, the aluminum industry was shining brighter again. Following the lead of frdnt-running Alcoa, which commands just over one-third of the domestic market, producers boosted prices of building sheets by 2? to 3? a lb. Kaiser Aluminum, the third biggest manufacturer, raised its production to 90% of capacity (v. $2% in April). And second-ranking Reynolds, risking prediction once again, forecast that the industry's output would rise from 2,000,000 tons last year to a record 2,550,000 tons...
...this was swept aside by the joys of space. Sunshine flooded his cabin. "I saw with my own eyes that the earth was a sphere. Blue coronas on the horizons were really indescribably beautiful. The stars seemed brighter. The spaceship seemed to be standing still and the moon floating by," he rhapsodized, quoting Gogol's "dark sky over which the moon floats." Then he added: "The cosmos awaits the painters and poets...
...veteran chemistry teacher at Hewlett (N.Y.) High School. This week he published a 188-page blueprint titled 30 Days To A Higher I.Q. For Your Child (Crown; $2.95), which consists of more than 700 problems and puzzles in the pattern of I.Q. tests. They will not make him brighter. But because "a poor showing on an I.Q. test can ruin your child's educational progress-perhaps forever," says Rosenfeld. "it is proper, even urgent that all children be taught how to take these tests...
...mummy, premiere audiences could not judge whether Bumbry's acting was a match for her singing. As for the new production itself, it was typically spare in detail but marred by the intrusion of a few Radio City Music Hall touches: an angelic choir whose halos gradually became brighter on rheostats; a womb-shaped, rigid fish net with ballerinas spread-eagled to its sides...
...terms of quality, however, the seminary picture is brighter; there are indications that the young men called to the ministry today are keener of mind and firmer of purpose than their predecessors. Many seminaries are raising their entrance requirements-among them, the Missouri Synod Lutherans' Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis, whose dean, the Reverend Leonard C. Wuerffel, feels that the current crop of seminarians are being better trained than they have been in at least 20 years...