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...leader in structural shapes, with 38% of production. But structural steel itself comprises a mere 7% of total production-and Bethlehem's hike would have added only one-fourth of 1% to the Government's steel price index. Moreover, Bethlehem pointed out, because of new, stronger, lighter structural steels, construction users now pay less than they did five years ago for equivalent jobs...
...pattern the match will take seems fairly clear. Harvard's best wrestlers are concentrated in the lighter weight classes, while Cornell solds three powerful men in a row in the upper brackets: Jeff Stephens at 147, Fran Ferrare at 177, and Bob Buchwald...
Throughout Europe and Asia squash is played with a slower ball and a lighter racquet than in America. As a result more speed and endurance are required than in the American game...
Secret Lessons. But one colored face was called in. It belonged to Conductor Henry Lewis, and for him the critics had nothing but praise. Lean and rangy as a cowpuncher, he had the orchestra playing in the best big-band tradition of the 1940s for lighter numbers, deftly shaped a generous symphonic sound for Concerto in F and Rhapsody in Blue with grand, sweeping gestures. Says Lewis: "It's harder getting a symphony to swing than getting a jazz ensemble to play Bach." At performance's end, the audience cried "Grazie, maestro!" and the string players tapped their...
...immediate result of the Cornell discovery was to raise some serious second thoughts about the preservation of food by radiation, a practice that is gradually gaining acceptance. Relatively heavy doses of radiation have been used to kill microorganisms that cause decay in food; lighter doses prevent potatoes from sprouting and kill insects that infest flour and cereals. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers the process safe enough to have cleared irradiated bacon, wheat and potatoes for public consumption, and the U.S. Army has already served some irradiated food in its mess halls. In Canada, the world's first...