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...steel companies-Dorman Long, South Durham Steel and Iron, and Stewarts and Lloyds-agreed to fuse into a group that will rival the new steel titans on the Continent, be capable of producing a quarter of Britain's steel needs. The merger was prompted by the demand for pipe created by newly found North Sea gas. Short of pipe capacity, Stewarts and Lloyds and South Durham plan to use Dorman Long's new plate plant at Lackenby as a source of supply. Since that is just the kind of resource pooling that the nationalization-bent government has been...
...knew the upper echelons of the Army like the back of his hand, and it was the back of his hand they sometimes got. When General "Hap" Arnold complained that the Air Force was not getting the large share of credit it claimed, Marshall told him pretty sharply to pipe down. Nor was he the man to ease the jolt when it came to jumping talent over seniority, as when Lieut. Colonel Eisenhower was promoted over numberless brigadiers. He kept a "little Black Book" for duds, and stars would never fall on those listed therein...
...composers of worldwide status, and a younger group of West Berliners is experimenting with "post-pop realism." Just about every West German town of any size has opera and repertory theater. And for those who prefer to stay at home, West Germany's two state-owned TV channels pipe some of the world's most original and tasteful tube-borne entertainment into more than ten million West German homes...
Reynolds (33%) soon, Reynolds has been moved to strike back with some new filters of its own. It launched Prince Albert pipe-tobacco cigarettes to match American's Half & Half filters, but dropped the brand as a failure. The main event is a new turn in the 40-year rivalry between Lucky Strikes and Reynolds' Camels, which are now the second-ranked nonfilters (after Pall Mall). Camel filters were introduced this year to compete with American's fast-growing Lucky filters, and a menthol version is ready to take on Lucky Strike Greens...
Other French troops may have been more disappointed with a provision of the new code that allows them to smoke a pipe and carry packages while walking in uniform but forbids them to offer an arm to a girl...