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...Flaw. The Government's case, as set forth in the complaint, was meager. It merely said that competition between the two companies would be eliminated in coke-oven byproducts, pig iron and semifinished steel products, but presented few specific details to show how, made no mention of the fact that even after the merger, Beth Steel would still be far smaller than U.S. Steel. Said a Justice man: "In this case you're losing the independent competing activity of the sixth biggest company in the industry. What more do you need than that...
...flaw in the Government's case, said Beth Steel, is that the two companies are more complementary, both by geography and by the products they make, than competitive. Bethlehem has plants on the east and west coasts, while Youngstown is concentrated in the Midwest. Youngstown produces many products that Bethlehem does not, e.g., seamless weld pipe, while Bethlehem manufactures steel types not made at all or in any large quantity by Youngstown, e.g., structural steels, rails, castings, stampings, machinery, freight cars, ships. The merger would permit product and geographic expansion that neither company could finance in the tight money...
...lack of energy and planning in the President's handling of national and international affairs has been explained in several ways. His health has perhaps had some connection with a few issues, notably the failure of the school bill. But generally the flaw is in attitude. This attitude is what makes either of the two possibilities of another Republican administration distasteful. Neither an Eisenhower nor a Nixon-turned-Eisenhower (which is the best that can be hoped for) is adequate. For leadership by team spirit alone is not enough, either in the nation or in the world...
...foggy moors and smoky cities of England it came, music that sang of Technicolor landscapes and of love that was tender, contented, and safely married. Every song was almost without flaw, as in a languorous dream, rich and edgeless as whipped cream, and always giving a hint of something a little more respectable than a mere pop tune, as the massed strings soared to the discrete pulsation of a harp or a guitar. And sometimes the music actually was more respectable, as when it was an orchestral arrangement of an operatic aria. This was the music of Annunzio Paolo Mantovani...
...oppressive story with fidelity and compelling logic. The strength of the book lies in her imaginative but firm characterization of the soldiers, seers and courtiers who were enmeshed in Saul's downfall. But above them all towers brooding Saul, a complex, courageous, often noble man, whose tragic flaw carries him ineluctably through doubt and guilt to self-destruction under the eye of a Jehovah not far removed, in time or temper, from Sophocles' Zeus...