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...After his 22 orbits, Cooper splashed down in the Pacific nearly two years ago, on May 16, 1963-and even the Mercury program is now ancient history. The only landmarks left for the busloads of tourists who roll through the spaceport is a memorial Mercury-type gantry and a stainless-steel monument shaped like the symbol for the planet Mercury ( §) with a "7" in the loop. It stands at the entrance to Pad 14 where Glenn & Co. embarked...
...barber for a shave. This naturally makes Europe highly attractive to the world's razor-blade makers. Throat-cutting competition for the market is raging between Boston-based Gillette Co., world's biggest producer, and Britain's Wilkinson Sword Ltd., whose introduction of the long-lasting stainless-steel blade changed the whole nature of the market (TIME, May 1). Stainless blades now account for almost 70% of British blade sales, 35% of the German market, and are increasing fast in other countries as delighted shavers try them. So far, smaller Wilkinson has been holding its own against...
...Defense Is Ready. From its 19-story, stainless-steel headquarters in Chicago's Loop, Inland is run by another highly concentrated facility of a sort: Chairman Joseph Block, 62, whose grandfather founded the company in 1893. A pipe-smoking intellectual who surrounds himself and his colleagues with modern art, Block angered competitors in 1962 by holding the price line during the steel crisis. Although he recently came out for steel price rises now, Block is realistic enough to admit that "I don't think there is much likelihood of an across-the-board increase any time soon...
...held its own list to less than 10% of the 5,000 items under negotiation. Among its exemptions: steel, lead and zinc, glassware, stainless-steel flatware. Even before adding to the list, Europe's protectionists had called for special protection for their aluminum, textiles, watches and sewing machines. Early this week, after desperate all-night bargaining, the French and their Italian allies gave in a bit, agreed to a list somewhat short of their original demands but much above what the Germans wanted...
Rickey's tall, stainless-steel blades and showers of metal shards shift gently with changing air currents, sound like the wind whispering through TV antennas...