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...considered and rejected such a course. And even before U.S. Steel rescinded its proposed rise. Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. President Leonard Rose cautiously declared that his company was "studying each of our product lines to determine the feasibility of specific price changes in the light of market conditions." In retrospect, most steelmen agree that such a course would have had the advantage of hitching prices to demand in the classic free-enterprise manner-and might have averted a collision course with the President...
...constructing the spiral stairs that Nervi first hindered by the rigidity which an interior timber formwork imposed on reinforced concrete. The next twelve years witnessed Nervi's various modifications of the skeleton of reinforced concrete and "in retrospect' strikingly continuous progression toward ferro-cement...
From the beginning of his Administration, Kennedy had been concerned about establishing "credibility" with Khrushchev. But, in retrospect, it was not until after the Autobahn voyage that Khrushchev began to believe that the new U.S. President might really back up his brave words with daring deeds. Given that inch, Kennedy began to make mileage...
...nearly exhausted the peaceful possibilities of expelling the Portuguese by negotiation or diplomatic pressure. When it took action, it embarked on a simple, 19th century war of naked self-interest; the entire operation smacked of gunboat diplomacy. On that basis, it was understandable: the 19th century was, in retrospect, not such a bad century, and even gunboat diplomacy had its virtues. What made the whole enterprise so offensive was India's past relentless posture of ethical superiority and its present hypocritical attempts to justify the invasion on moral grounds. India, argued Krishna Menon, was really defending itself because "colonialism...
Summer Apart. But in retrospect, many New Yorkers could see that the Rockefeller split had been in the making for quite a while. They had not been seen together-at least in public-since last March, when fire badly damaged the Governor's Mansion in Albany. After Tod awakened Nelson by pounding on the door of his adjoining bedroom, they escaped through windows to a porch roof. While the mansion was being repaired, Rocky checked into an Albany hotel alone. Tod summered at Seal Harbor, he at the Venezuelan ranch. Since then, Rocky has appeared at scores of ceremonial...