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...fall upturn last week saw signs that it had arrived. The steel industry, heartened by an upturn in orders, scheduled operations at 66.3% of capacity, highest rate since June 28. U.S. Steel Corp. announced plans for a new "multimilliondollar" plant in Utah for making oil and gas pipe, for a battery of 59 new coke ovens at its National Tube Division in Lorain, Ohio, and for improvements at Chicago and Pittsburgh plants...
Frustrations & Freedoms. To the 70-odd U.S. and British reporters waiting to meet them in Hong Kong, the Laborites were considerably less gracious. "Any statement on your tour?" one of the newsmen asked Attlee, but before the former Prime Minister could even remove his pipe, Morgan Phillips, Labor Secretary and party chaperon, snapped, "No." Only Trade Union Leader Harry Franklin and Dr. Edith Summerskill seemed disposed to chat, the one about houseflies ("Why, I've seen more flies right here than I saw in all my time in China"), the other about the "increased freedom in the field...
Wonderful. Artzybasheff's cover . . . a spitting image of me as a handyman, including pipe...
...yourself hobbyist? One needs to be a jack-of-all-trades, attending to . . . the dishes, watering, bathing the kids and dog; weeding, washing the car, answering the phone and door. Then there's the errand running: upstairs for the hammer, down the basement to hunt for the missing pipe wrench. "Hold this board at just this angle at just this moment." "Please get me some more putty." There is sanding. Especially the corners and awkward spots which won't respond to power equipment held in other hands...
...Churches assembly (see RELIGION), Germany's famed Pastor Martin Niemöller lit a long cigar and discussed tobacco as the hallmark of the theologian. Puffed he: "If he smokes cigarettes, he's liberal. If he smokes cigars, he's orthodox. If he smokes a pipe, he's dialectic. If he doesn't ( smoke, then he cannot be a theologian." Niemöller then admitted that the theory was not his, but that of Switzerland's pipe-smoking Theologian Karl Barth...