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...CONTINUOUS CASTING. The idea is so obvious that Bessemer filed a patent on it 101 years ago, but complex production bugs stymied its use until recently. The ordinary method of casting is to pour the metal into ingot molds to harden, strip away the mold, reheat the ingot and roll it into semifinished shapes. Continuous casting eliminates these cumbersome steps. A ladle atop a tower pours white-hot steel into a 2-to-4-ft-deep oscillatfhg copper-lined mold. As the mold bottom is withdrawn, an unbroken billet of barely crusted steel creeps down through cooling water sprays...
...most rewarding work came in October and November when we had a chance to pour concrete. We shoveled sand and gravel and concrete into metal bowls which students carried on their heads and threw into the cement mixer. Others picked up wheelbarrows full of cement, raced down narrow boardways and dumped them into the stone bed of the foundation. It was hard work and the sun was getting hotter, but when the day was over we could see the floor of the building that we had made...
...Reader Rowland Allen [April 15] feels that the existence of intangibles can't be proved! Ever put your hands around love? Pour loyalty into a test tube? Examine courage under a microscope? Of course not, Mr. Allen, intangibles don't exist...
...Determined to give Selassie a proper reception, the government scraped deep into its depleted treasury for $100,000, used it to plant flagpoles along the two-mile length of road from the airport to the capital of Port-au-Prince, place festive flags all over the city and pour fresh concrete along part of the route so that the Lion of Judah would not be overcome by dust. The high point of Selassie's crowded, one-day visit was the naming of the just-completed airport road "Boulevard Haile Selassie." Such are conditions in Haiti, however, that road dedications...
...films, its fads, its styles, its people. It is also the place to go. It has become the latest mecca for Parisians who are tired of Paris, where the stern and newly puritanical domain of Charles de Gaulle holds sway. From the jets that land at its doors pour a swelling cargo of the international set, businessmen, tourists-and just plain scene-makers...