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...past enmities. Both Japan and West Germany were competing again in the Olympics for the first time since World War II. Germany's Olympic trials had already produced a sensation when Werner Lueg, a 20-year-old West-phalian, equaled the world record for the 1,500 meters ("metric mile") with a clocking...
...respect Europe was in husky shape last week. Steel production, said the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe, was at an alltime high of nearly 68 million metric tons.† Of this, 58 million tons had been forged in non-Communist countries: West Germany (up 12%), France (up 13%), the French-directed Saar (up 40%), Belgium (up 25%), Italy (up 29%), The Netherlands (up 12%), and Austria (up 10%). Only Britain, Europe's largest single steel producer, is below her 1950 output (by 4%), partially because of shortages of scrap and coke...
...told the British Association for the Advancement of Science that he thought he had the answer. After testing 583 Oxford students, he had found some striking differences between athletes and nonathletes, and between athletes in different events, had reduced his findings to a mathematical formula. The formula: using the metric system, divide a man's height by the cube root of his weight; multiply the result by the diameter of his heart (measured by X ray), and multiply again by his leg length. Middle and long-distance runners ought to score over 15,500; sprinters ought to score less...
...Russia's oil production, concentrated vulnerably in the Caspian Sea area, north of Iran, and a markedly weak feature of its industrial system, is expected to top 35 million metric tons this year. (U.S. production: 262 million.) The Balkan satellites may divert two or three million more tons to Russia. The rich oilfields of Iran and Iraq would double Russia's oil output, but the Soviet Union would meet stiff U.S. and British opposition if it tried to seize them...
Rubber is no problem. Russia was the first country (1936) to set up a sizable synthetic-rubber industry, now produces about 125,000 metric tons a year...