Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story often develops bit by bit over a period of months or years. After continuing reports of increasing prices in European countries, TIME correspondents in London, Bonn, Paris and Rome carefully studied the price that Europe is paying for prosperity. Putting together evidence, from the price of steel to the fact that a glass of beer costs nearly as much in Munich as it does in Milwaukee. WORLD BUSI NESS concludes that inflation is the most serious threat to the health of Europe's economic boom. In some cases, the threads of a major trend story literally spread around...
...outset, Gabon's 450,000 citizens couldn't have cared less about the coup. But the combination of French steel and Mba's flinty threats of "total punishment" once he was back in office finally struck a spark. In Libreville's La-lala quarter, a dissonant mob formed. Fired up on payday whisky, it marched on the capital's central market, screaming: "Frenchmen go home!" The rioters were finally dispersed in a crunching whirl of para rifle butts...
...toys are designed to win the notoriously fickle attention of U.S. children and, toymakers hope, to hike this year's toy sales 20% to $1.3 billion. The prospect of all these toys makes visions of dollars dance in the heads of the executives of such companies as U.S. Steel, Dow Chemical, Monsanto, Union Carbide and Goodyear. This year the toy industry will lay out more than $600 million to buy raw materials from their firms and hundreds of others...
...track symphony booms music to go to pieces by. As a manic-depressive sex kitten, Carol Lynley somehow suggests that a good fortified cereal would put her back together again. McDowall and Whitman, tending the rose garden, make thorny work of it. And Actress Bacall, woefully miscast, exercises her steel-and-velvet charm as if she were running a rest home for demented Bunnies. Bacall's throatiest, most telling line: "I detest stupid people who think they can fake mental illness." Fortunately, nobody need submit to Shock Treatment unless he is dragged in screaming...
...colored men's cage at the Hinds County Jail consists of a hundred-foot corridor with five eight-man cells on either side. Everything except the floor is made of unpainted blue steel--the floor is of ancient cracked cement. Each cell is eighteen feet wide by eleven feet deep with two barred and screened windows. There is a hole in the floor of each cell which serves as a toilet--it is flushed periodically by trusties who happen by. There is a needle-spray cold water shower in the large day room (in which the prisoners are locked from...