Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tennis courts and football fields, sharing their geology and astronomy departments, even arranging class hours so that students could attend courses at both schools. Back in the 1940s, symbolically enough, the sturdy Cyclone fence that long separated the two campuses was torn down and replaced by a less conspicuous steel chain -and even that stands today only in spots...
Ayub did, however, win some handsome consolation prizes. Kosygin agreed to bankroll Pakistan's first steel mill, a $100 million project in Kalabagh with a capacity of up to a million tons a year. He also offered to provide help on a nuclear power plant at Ruppur in East Pakistan, a radio hookup between Pakistan and Russia, and a fishery development. Most of them planned for completion after 1970, these projects should provide a big boost for Pakistan's next five-year plan, which begins that year. The present one, even though slowed down by the war with...
...Republic Steel Corp. reported a 38.6% rise over the first quarter of 1967, while Wheeling Steel, which has suffered more than two years of losses, reported earnings of $5.3 million...
...that sent the cost of living soaring. By clamping down on capital expenditures and tightening money, the government was able to nip inflation-and by the end of 1967, the economy was stabilized. During the first two months of this year, production was up about 5.5%. In March, crude-steel output hit an alltime high of 3.6 million tons. Domestic auto sales have been slower to recover, but carmakers predict an increase of 12% this year. Even the staid Deutsche Bank has been inviting Germans to loosen their purse strings. "You can go out and buy those things...
...point in June Steel's wretched Kien-holtz on Exhibit (UCLA) when bad shots of the sculpture degenerated into fourth-rate cinema verite interviews with the spectators, I decided to take a nap, and slept happily straight through it until the big film (first prize, dramatic division) came on, George Lucas's THX 1138 4EB (USC), which is as dazzling as advance reports (Newsweek's, among others) had suggested. Lucas's premise comes direct from Alphaville and 1984: in a computer-run dehumanized society where everyone is numbered and serves a function, one man is in undefined revolt. The entire...