Word: lifting
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...better President" than Kennedy. The corollary: two-thirds still think that Kennedy was the better President -and if practical accomplishment alone is to be the criterion, that is an odd judgment. The fact is that people want and need legends as well as accomplishments; the ability to lift, to inspire-to become legendary-is in itself an accomplishment no less concrete because it is intangible...
When the rain clouds lift from Mt. Rainier, it is revealed as a major embellishment of the state of Washington. And when the clouds of scandal and discontent lift from the campus that lies under Rainier, it appears as an equal adornment. This fall the University of Washington is relishing clear academic weather, part of a new climate that began in 1958. That was the year when Charles E. Odegaard took charge...
...nations sent delegates, including a 14-member U.S. team led by Assistant Treasury Secretary Merlyn N. Trued and-remarkably-a high-ranking, five-man delegation from the Soviet Union. All of them came to Bangkok last week to set up a $1 billion Asian Development Bank to help lift Asia from its morass of poverty. Its purpose: to finance such economic necessities as power, ports, railroads, water supply and industry...
...Lift in Output. The two trends together have touched off the greatest migration and building program in the steel industry's 101-year history. U.S. Steel and Inland, both longtime Chicago producers, have major expansion programs under way to add furnaces and finishing mills. Jones & Laughlin will erect a ground-up $600 million plant at Hennepin, 111. (TIME, July 9). Bethlehem is spending $400 million on a 3,300-acre complex of finishing mills at Burns Harbor, Ind. Youngstown Sheet & Tube is laying out $375 million for a blast furnace and finishing mills at East Chicago, and Midwest Steel...
Because of the lift in steel output and orders, employment and construction in the Chicago area are rising. Last week the state of Indiana sought first bids for a new port at Burns Harbor that will cost about $100 million, will handle ore boats carrying iron ore from the Mesabi and from similar mines in Upper Michigan. The Burlington Lines railroad recently decided to add 100 covered gondola cars to carry finished steel, later revised the total upward to 200 because of the rising volume of traffic. The New York Central System is planning to build...