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France has one of the best and most buoyant steel positions in its history, raised production to a record 16.2 million tons last year. The industry is modern, research conscious and anxious to win new markets. Though Japan is still considered a high-cost producer of iron and steel-mainly because it has to import raw materials-it also manages to compete actively abroad, is moving into South America at the expense of the U.S. industry. Japan's steel industry is dominated by six big firms led by Yawata Iron & Steel, under President Arakazu Ojima, who wants the industry...
...Never since Queen Victoria came to the throne more than a century ago," whooped London's Sunday Express, "has Britain been so buoyant, so prosperous." Britain's export boom broke new records in May, and came within a hairbreadth of bringing the long-coveted balance of trade. Last week the government announced that May exports reached an all-time peak of $866,300,000, leaving a trade gap of only $4,200,000, the lowest recorded since the government began keeping figures in the mid-19th century...
...students who roll into town boasting of new driving endurance records -26 hours from Ohio State, 27 from Carlisle, Pa.'s Dickinson College-are too buoyant and too broke to worry about being shut out of hotspots. They require only beer and the beach. "It's not that we drink so much," one Notre Dame senior explained sudsily. "It's just that we drink all the time." Cops check identification as carefully as they can, but there were few students in the last fortnight who did not have some sort of paper asserting that they were...
...keep the voters on his side. The Gallup poll reports that 54% of the Canadians like the Tories-exactly the same proportion that voted for them a year ago. Reasons (as reported by Gallup) for the Tory popularity: old-age pensions, the government's record, and the buoyant, aggressive personality of John Diefenbaker...
Jauntily turned out in glen plaid suit and lemon shirt, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller went through one buoyant morning's routine in the State Capitol at Albany. He presided over a swearing-in, sat on the carpeted floor with delighted schoolchildren visitors, charmed a delegation of Methodist churchwomen. Cracked he, as a photographer posed a group portrait: "I have to be careful who I stand behind. My wife sees these pictures, you know." Amid the badinage, Nelson Rockefeller did not betray by so much as a flicker of an eye the fact that his reputation...