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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...else fails, Johnson is counting on the realities of the marketplace to force a rollback in steel prices. After all, higher prices figure to make it even more difficult for the industry to compete with low-priced foreign steel. Nor will they help steelmakers in their efforts to drum up business during the general economic slowdown expected during the next six months. "We hope," said Johnson, "the competitive factors will, as they have in the past, bring about a readjustment on the action that the Bethlehem company has taken...
Soon this is going to change. After years of dawdling, the Labor government finally announced its plan to help set up a domestic aluminum industry. British Aluminium Co. .(partly owned by Reynolds Metals of the U.S.) and the British mining concern, Rio Tinto-Zinc Corp., received the go-ahead to build two smelting plants. They are expected to produce an annual 224,000 tons of ingots by 1971 and save $100 million a year on imports...
Wilted Face. Two months later, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson approached Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in London with L.B.J.'s approval. The P.M. handed the Russian a note, prepared with the help of a White House liaison man, proposing a bombing halt (phase A) to be followed, after a face-saving interval, by mutual de-escalation (phase B). Kosygin had boarded a train to Scotland when Johnson abruptly decided that the proposed interval was too long. The embarrassed Wilson was forced to chase Kosygin down with a new proposal...
...years, up to 1918, his country was dominated by a Western power, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Czechs' only hope was that a strong nation of similar Slavic culture, sensitive to Slav desires for self-determination, would help her drive for independence. The Russian Bolsheviks during the crucial years of World War I, became her champion...
...appreciate what actually was happening on the stage. The reason for this was partly due to the audience, its great impatience and at times actual rudeness, and partly to the directors' mismanagement. Too many artists were scheduled for any given concert and time was allocated insensitively. One could not help being disturbed when the Junior Wells-Buddy Guy Blues Band was hustled off the stage because time was pressing only to be subjected to forty minutes of Janis Ian's middle class, adolescent hang ups and juvenile polemic later in the evening...