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...industry, which will spend an estimated $35 billion on expansion this year, the talk last week was that 1956 is only the beginning. Speaking to the Investment Bankers Association in Hollywood, Fla., Bethlehem Steel Corp. President Arthur Bartlett Homer gave the steel industry's forecast for tomorrow and beyond: "We will have to increase capacity by more than 50% in the next 15 years to meet the continuing longterm growth needs of the American economy." In hard figures, said Steelman Homer, that means another 70 million tons of capacity, or a total of 200 million tons of steel annually...
...sent incumbent Republicans back to the Senate: Connecticut's Prescott Bush beat Congressman Thomas J. Dodd; Maryland's John Marshall Butler, elected six years ago with Joe McCarthy's assistance, without it this time downed Democrat George P. Mahoney by 50,000 votes; Indiana's Homer E. Capehart easily won a third term over former Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard; and Wisconsin's 72-year-old Alexander Wiley handily downed State Senator Henry W. Maier. In Nevada, after trailing part of the way through a nip-and-tuck battle with Cliff Young, Democratic Incumbent Alan...
Icing on the Cake. One correspondent, the New York Times's Pulitzer Prizewinning Homer Bigart, had a hand in each of the week's big stories. A veteran reporter of battle in Korea and Palestine when he worked for the Herald Tribune, Bigart had been rushed from New York to Vienna to work on the Hungarian revolution. He was filing from Hungary when the Times cabled him to get to Israel. Three days later, Bigart's byline appeared over a story from Tel Aviv. The Times's shift of Bigart was only icing on the cake...
Indiana: Solidly for Ike. Republican Senator Homer Capehart leads Democrat Claude Wickard...
...target, his fast ball hummed into life, but when he was wide of the strike zone, he was not wide enough. Even the pitches he wanted to waste hung close to the plate. Squat Yogi Berra, the best fastball hitter in the majors, whacked one of them for a homer in the first inning, another into the stands in the third. After that, the tense series degenerated into a shambles. In the fourth inning, Yankee Outfielder Elston Howard tagged Newk for another homer, and the home-town stands belched an ugly chorus of boos as the big man sadly slouched...