Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most striking aid project, and the Russians are breaking their backs to do the job right and on time, and are largely succeeding-even at the expense of Siberian dam projects, delayed because Russia's top engineering talent is in Egypt. The Russians are also expanding the Helwan steel complex and the Suez refinery for Nasser, and reclaiming 35,000 acres of Nile delta land; but one of Helwan's two coke boilers burned out after only two months' use, and the other is looking dangerously scorched...
...IRAQ and Moscow have equally disappointed each other. Little of the $184 million in Soviet credits (bloc countries have put up another $34 million) has been used, despite grandiose plans for a 60,000-ton steel plant. A telephone exchange and a broadcasting station are successfully in operation, but of a dozen other plants promised, only a shoe factory and a food processing plant have been built, and the latter is having what is euphemistically described as "operating difficulties." The Soviets blame the Iraqis for procrastination and noncooperation. The Iraqis blame poor Soviet engineering standards, citing as an example...
Within a few years Peter strikes it rich with a videotic series called Ben Bullet. He takes to wearing one of those silk-sheen suits that look like beaten stainless steel. In his pocket is an offstage mistress, but under his collar is prickly...
...pacify their inchoate neuroses and assure them that she is not in carnate evil after all. She made Oz when she was 36, and worked in Hollywood for years afterward as everybody's "cantankerous cook or acidulous aunt," in her words, "with a corset of steel and a heart of gold." Today she does character parts in the theater and on TV. Before the election, she made several appearances on NBC's That Was the Week That Was, impersonating formidable Republican ladies and the like...
...shell was left in private hands after nationalization, is now a leader in chemicals, computers and farm equipment. Adriatic Electric has merged with huge and powerful Montecatini. Even the state-owned IRI Finelettrica-which managed to get "nationalized" by being swallowed up by ENEL-has shifted its investments into steel and a nationwide telephone system, is now channeling compensation money into new industrial development in southern Italy...