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Trooping into Manhattan last week for the annual convention of the American Iron & Steel Institute, executives of the U.S. steel industry had plenty to crow about. For the first time in a year, steel production stood above 2,000,000 tons a week, and the industry's operating rate was back to a "normal" 70% of capacity, 30 points above its midwinter low. Some steelmen even predicted that total steel output in 1961 may hit between 100 million and 105 million tons, v. last year's 99 million. But despite this heartening news, the conventioneers all joined...
There are, of course, a few anachronisms. The Jim Crow humor, acceptable to most audiences in 1939, will embarrass the average moviegoer today. And there are flaws of style and structure. The second half of the picture tends to maunder a little, and the whole film is afflicted by Producer David Selznick's rather tacky preference for gnarled trees silhouetted against flaming sunsets. The spectator sometimes gets a peculiar sensation that the picture has not really begun-he's still watching the travelogue...
...Castro regime's triumphant cock's crow of victory, for all its exaggerations, was closer to the bitter truth. At the Bay of Pigs, on Cuba's south coast, a force of 1,300 wellarmed, well-trained anti-Castro freedom fighters last week launched a major campaign to rid their homeland of Communist dictatorship. They were defeated within two days by a better-armed, better-led enemy, who withstood their attack and delivered a crushing counterblow. The defeat, as all the world sensed, was a tragedy not only for Cuba's exiles. It was a debacle...
...middle of a three-week run at the Copa, Bobby Darin exemplifies the shallowing reservoir of young U.S. pop singing talent-an immodest boy with modest ability, whose fan club has just a little more to crow about than the followers of Frankie Avalon or the Fabian societies. Yet Darin has made six LP albums that have sold more than 1,500,000 copies. His trademark single recordéa driving version of Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife-has sold more than 2,000,000 copies. He has all the bookings he can handle in America...
MERGER COCKTAIL is being mixed by National Distillers (Old Crow, Gilbey's) and Bridgeport Brass Co. to create bigger National Distillers, with assets of $625 million. As unlikely at first glance as marriage of a parson and a show girl, merger would actually make good sense because National, second biggest U.S. maker of polyethylene (first: Union Carbide), also owns 60% of Reactive Metals, Inc. (zirconium, titanium, tantalum, columbium), managed by Bridgeport...