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...BASIC OXYGEN FURNACES. Developed in Europe, the oxygen process is now catching on so fast that it should oust open-hearth production as the U.S. norm by the end of next year. As a spectacle, the oxygen furnaces of such firms as Bethlehem, National, Republic and Kaiser out-inferno Dante. When a pipelike lance stabs the molten iron with a Mach 2 jet of high-pressure oxygen, the cauldrons burst into a maelstrom of 3,000° metal, boiling noxious smoke and spewing fireworks. The process not only enables steelmen to cook a batch of steel in 40 minutes instead...
...committee meetings the poor talked of "organizing against the political and economic structure" that has denied them control over anti-poverty expenditures. There was talk of "political assassination" to oust officeholders accused of "keeping us down." Mrs. Unita Blackwell of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party declared: "The Federal Government ought to be ashamed of itself. The same men who pay us $3 a day and are bent on putting people off the land-that's the men who are on the poverty committee. You just come up with the resources, and we'll show you what...
...first time in more than a decade. State Assemblyman George C. Rawlings, 44, a Fredericksburg attorney and avowed liberal, plans to make Smith's obstructionism on civil rights and other contemporary issues the focus of his campaign. Moderate State Senator William B. Spong, 45, is attempting to oust U.S. Senator Absalom Willis Robertson, 78, and Alexandria Attorney Armistead Boothe is trying for the seat of U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd...
...vestiges of power. It had to be done politely because that is the way things are done in Indonesian politics, and because Suharto still needs Sukarno as a figure head. But it had to be done firmly be cause the generals were now determined once and for all to oust Sukarno's strongest ally, crafty Foreign Minister Subandrio, and the rest of the pro-Communist Ministers, from the 96-man Cabinet. So day after day, the delicate minuet continued as Suharto alternated between public assurances that Sukarno was still top man and private pressure on him to give...
...everything from harmonizing taxes on business to a joint policy on monopolies. France refuses to join in a common credit policy toward the Iron Curtain countries, since such limits on her freedom would cut across De Gaulle's aim of wooing Eastern Europe. France has been striving to oust EEC Commission President Walter Hallstein, a persistent foe of De Gaulle's narrow nationalist design for Europe. With the present nine-man EEC commission shortly due to be consolidated with the Coal and Steel Community and Euratom into a single 14-man executive body, the other five nations have...