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...Britain in production in 15 years." and after revising production targets ever upward, claimed that by the end of this year China would have produced 10.7 million tons of steel-double last year's figure. More breath-taking yet was their claim that production of edible grains would soar to 350 million tons, 90% over last year...
There are two phases of man's navigation of space: the going out and the coming back. The Air Force's Pioneer demonstrated that the day is near at hand when a missile will soar out into free space. Last week North American Aviation, Inc. rolled out its X-15 - a stub-winged, hard-shelled rocket.plane designed to study the other end of the problem: how to get a man back safely from outer space...
High Living. The real upsurge began after World War II, when food prices began to soar, and housewives grew cautious about overbuying. The leftovers got skimpier, were hoarded in the freezer instead of fed to pets. It was also a lot easier and cheaper to open a box or can of dog food. (Dog-food prices have fallen 12% since 1953, although people-food prices have risen 8%.) Into the open market jumped hundreds of small new companies, such as Los Angeles' Dr. Ross Dog & Cat Food Co., begun by D. B. Lewis, 53, a Tennessean who parlayed...
...pieces of this hunger, but none devotes itself entirely to the whole vast need." Catering to U.S. cultural hunger comes easily to Horizon. Its parent is the bustling American Heritage Publishing Co. (TIME, Feb. 17), which overhauled the little-known historical quarterly, American Heritage, in 1954. saw it soar as a bright new bimonthly to a circulation of more than 300,000. Unlike Heritage, which was begun on an initial investment of $65,000, Horizon blossomed forth after a ripe overture of expensive nourishes and drum pounding...
...convey the briny sense of evil that Callas brings to the role, she demonstrated again that hers is perhaps the finest dramatic-soprano voice in the land. Perfectly responsive to the opera's somber emotional inflections, her voice could sink effortlessly to a haunted, house-filling pianissimo or soar in gorgeously shifting gradations to cleave through the orchestra with ringing power. The least impressed person in the house was Singer Farrell herself. "The poor audience," she said after her grueling performance. "Medea just keeps on singing...