Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 As the mold bottom is withdrawn, an unbroken billet of barely crusted steel creeps down through cooling water sprays and over rollers to burners, which slice it, still red-hot, into handy lengths. The technique has cut production costs by more than $10 a ton for companies such as Roblin Steel of Dunkirk, N.Y., which helped pioneer the process in the U.S. Continuous casting mills are so much cheaper to build than old-fashioned facilities that...
...large slice of London's 2,400,000 young adults and working teen-agers live in Chelsea, Earl's Court and South Kensington, the residential districts roughly comparable to Manhattan's upper East Side. While the models and ad agency execs can afford quaint private houses, with black-painted doors and tidy flower boxes, the lesser lights pack themselves into shared flats (three or four to an apartment) that cost a minimum of $30 a month, or nest in "bedsitters" (furnished rooms, $10 a week). "Youth has become emancipated," says Mick Jagger, "and the girls have become...
...Chicago mansion. Clay's handlers were looking for still another nobody for Cassius to fight before he reports for the draft, perhaps in June. Henry Cooper seems to fill the bill best: the latest in a long line of swooning British heavyweights, he can be cut by a slice of bread, and he is now 31. Besides, Clay knocked him out three years...
...polls for this week's general election, Tory Leader Ted Heath clearly needed to pull out all the stops. Nor was his claim without a shred of support. Britain's major opinion polls did, in fact, register a slight shift to the Conservatives, though hardly enough to slice significantly into the Labor Party's huge lead...
Hired killers, bagmen, juvenile cops, mysterious servants and religious nuts tumble over one another in Harper, and the convoluted plot demands an audience's unwavering attention. By combining flamboyant suspense with a sunbaked slice of life and lots of good mean fun, Director Smight makes every clue a pleasure to follow...