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...that have vastly altered the steel business over the past decade. Such companies as Inland were quicker to react to the fact that the great postwar and post-Korea steel shortage ended in 1957, and they stepped up their selling drives. While U.S. Steel continued to concentrate on the heavier and less profitable grades of steel, such specialists as Armco and Youngstown marketed more and more of the lighter and flat-rolled steels that have taken larger bites of the market...
...Zinka Milanov and others (RCA Victor). Like Caruso, whose popularity he nearly attained, the Swedish tenor died before 50, but unlike Caruso he was able to leave a treasury of well-engineered recordings of Italian opera. These excerpts date from 1950 to 1956, and show his voice getting slightly heavier and darker while retaining its refinement and radiance...
...Viet Cong guerrillas are almost as much at home in this setting as the crickets, while the government soldiers -many of them city boys, most of them encumbered with heavier equipment and moving in much larger units -are increasingly bogged down in unfamiliar terrain. In recent months U.S. advisers have pondered ways of improving mobility during the rainy season. One new tactic: a buildup in small boats to transport troops across paddyfields. But hustling the East in the rainy season promises to be even more frustrating than usual, though last week five government battalions were ambitiously attempting to flush...
...Gone are Sceptre's tubby lines; the new boats have a swift, made-in-U.S. look with sharp, clean bows, narrow hulls and wide sterns. They could be twins except for the keels: Sovereign's is V-shaped and knife sharp, while Kurrewa's is heavier and rounded...
Even as the U.S. began to deploy Atlas, it pushed on to develop Titan, which could carry a heavier warhead. Yet U.S. intelligence painted a frightening picture of Soviet missile capability. Defense Department experts predicted that the U.S.S.R. could have some 400 long-range missiles by mid-1963, while the U.S. would have only about half that number. This was the so-called "missile gap," which became a 1960 presidential campaign issue. To help plug the anticipated gap, the U.S. deployed 1,500-mile Thor and Jupiter missiles in Europe, then gambled heavily on Polaris and Minuteman. Since their solid...