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...Steel output jumped to about 2,363,000 tons, up from 2,288,000 the week before. If the rise continues at this rate, the industry this week will bump against the alltime high of 2,525,000 tons, poured in the week of Dec. 17, 1956. Then the industry was operating under a strain at 102.6% of capacity. Now it is breezing along at 83.5% of 1959's greatly expanded capacity...
...turboprop Electra had more than lived up to its billing: normal flight time from Chicago at the Electra's 400-m.p.h. cruising speed had been sliced a third. And the big aircraft had winged 713 miles eastward through almost steady rain at 21,000 ft. with barely a bump...
...plight of a homeless cat can reduce her to tears. She drinks too much, writes too little and apparently wants nothing but the affection that a pointless life has denied her. When the young Russian named Dima comes along, the accident of love is as inevitable as the bump of a skidding taxicab on the Pont Royal. Their love affair begins with a drink, a look and a touch. It flames, gutters and flames again...
...German Generals: "A futile lot, I thought. Lacking in will and lacking in execution. How they failed to bump off Hitler with the opportunity they had, I don't know...
...Toni (Toni Carroll; M-G-M LP). Songstress Carroll, billed as a onetime Miss Missouri, belongs to the whisper-from-the-navel school. Her incendiary reading of such ballads as I'm in the Mood for Love and I Only Have Eyes for You will bump the pulse, the album guarantees, "of any red-blooded American man." Toni's signature song (Call Toni) sets the pitch: "I'm all yours and ready to do/ Anything you want me to/ Just dial TONI oh-five-six-eight-three...