Word: steel
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Dope is hardly necessary. Today's competitor has no end of perfectly legal aids. His equipment has improved, with spectacular effects. The old hickory or ash vaulting poles have given way to bamboo, steel, aluminum and fiber glass, and with each change vaulters have soared ever higher, until the world record is now 17 ft. 61 in. - more than a foot and a half above Hamilton's "ultimate" limit. The foot ball has been narrowed and shortened twice since 1930 to make it easier to hold and throw; and each alteration in its shape has contributed...
...electricity, have been struck-some many times. The only large power plant left is Lao Cai, which is off limits because it stands on the border with Red China. U.S. jets recently destroyed the Haiphong plant that poured 95% of the country's cement. The showpiece Thai Nguyen steel plant has been bombed 13 times. To defend the heartland as best he can, Ho has emplaced in it some 5,000 of his total 7,000 antiaircraft guns and about 20 of his 25 SAM battalions, each of which operates six missile launchers. The result is layered flak...
...visitor to West Germany might logically assume that cheery, beery Munich, with its renowned art galleries and swinging student quarter, or perhaps the hothouse glitter of West Berlin, might offer the most congenial milieu for artists. Hardly anyone would think of busy Düsseldorf, a conglomeration of shimmering steel-and-glass office buildings on the Rhine that epitomizes the commercial hubbub of the Wirtschaftswunder. Nonetheless, the lion's share of West Germany's most adventurous artists today find in Düsseldorf just the setting they need. Says Munich's grand old man of art, onetime...
...STEEL. To prevent steel from being dropped from the Round altogether, Britain agreed to shave its regular tariff from 11% to 8% and to trim 20% from its fixed duty of $12.60 a ton on certain steels. With that, the EEC sliced its steel levy from 9% to 5.7%, opening the way for a general world alignment of steel tariffs at around...
American chemical and steel producers, however, angrily denounced the pact. The chemical men promised a fight to prevent Congress from repealing the American Selling Price law-even though the U.S. exports chemicals worth three times its imports. The steelmakers' ire centers on the Kennedy Round's comparative failure to persuade other countries to end nontariff trade barriers, such as quotas, border taxes and import licensing. "We couldn't ship any steel into Japan if we gave it away," complains Chairman Edward J. Hanley of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. "It's embargoed." Similar protectionist obstacles cover hundreds...