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Flaw. The Government's case, as set forth in the complaint, was meager. It merely said that competition between the two companies would be eliminated in coke-oven byproducts, pig iron and semifinished steel products, but presented few specific details to show how, made no mention of the fact that even after the merger, Beth Steel would still be far smaller than U.S. Steel. Said a Justice man: "In this case you're losing the independent competing activity of the sixth biggest company in the industry. What more do you need than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: How Big Is Too Big? | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...each of the ten archetypal adventures, Li'l Abner and his friends are wriggled out of one difficulty only to fall into another. Victim of Capp's slightest whim, even Li'l Abner's pig must (barely) wriggle out of being turned into the Ecstasy Sauce that Bounder J. Roundheels must have for the Roast Rump of Tree Dwelling Elephant that will get him into the Gourmet's Club. From the first Sadie Hawkins' Day episode in which L'l Abner wriggles out of Daisy Mae's arms into those of a jackass, to the last where he is "hopelessly...

Author: By Corn Shux, | Title: The World of Li'l Abner | 12/15/1956 | See Source »

...prove the worth of a revolutionary idea: that it should be possible to learn more about the inside of a diseased human heart by inserting a thin rubber tube (catheter) into it. But none of his hospital colleagues in Eberswalde, near Berlin, was willing to be a guinea pig. Suspecting the gleam in young Forssmann's eyes, the chief surgeon even forbade his experimenting on himself. Secretly one night Dr. Forssmann punctured a vein in his arm and persuaded a fellow resident to start working a tube into it. With little more than i ft. inserted, the friend quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Into the Heart | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

Tonight You Belong to Me (Liberty). A couple of breathy young voices identified simply as "Patience and Prudence" are applying a pig-tailed bounce to a tune that needed something of the kind to get it off the playroom floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

Married. Robert Carl ("Zup") Zuppke, 77, German-born pig farmer, landscape painter and Katzenjammer-brogued longtime (1913-41) football coach of the University of Illinois, mentor of Red Grange, winner of five Big Ten championships, two ties; and Leona P. Ray, his housekeeper for 23 years; he for the second time, she for the first; in Champaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

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