Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Newman told his audience that he had come home one evening and complained, "I'm so sick of hearing my own voice." To which Wife Joanne had quickly replied, "Why were you listening?" "Lyndon Johnson used to tell me I wasn't made of steel, but I didn't believe him," recalled Arkansas Representative Wilbur Mills, returning to work after five months' treatment for alcoholism. Though his drinking problem cost him his 16-year chairmanship of the mighty House Ways and Means Committee, Mills showed more remorse than rancor as he settled back into...
...Leyland, but the total outlay may exceed $6 billion. The rescue plan, however, does not call for cutting back employment, though overmanning is one of Leyland's chief handicaps. Similarly, Benn is resisting the economy measures of Sir Monty Finniston, the chief executive of the nationalized British Steel Corp., which is losing nearly $6 million a week. Finniston wants to reduce the 220,000-member work force by 10% and close small, inefficient plants...
...Steel profits, like the bumblebee, seem to be defying gravity. They hit record levels in 1974, and have gone right on rising through the recession-darkened first quarter of this year. While earnings of all manufacturing industries fell an average of 18% from the same quarter last year, the sharpest drop in 14 years, Bethlehem Steel posted a profit gain of 86% and Republic Steel 57%. U.S. Steel earned 54% more from operations than a year earlier; a huge capital gain lifted the total increase to 103%. The surge occurred despite plummeting demand from such major customers as the battered...
Died. John B. McKay, 52, steel-nerved NASA test pilot, whose flights on the experimental X-15 rocket plane in the early 1960s helped lay the groundwork for later Mercury and Apollo space programs; of complications of injuries suffered in 1962, when his X-15 crash-landed so severely that he lost an inch of height as his spine compressed on impact; in Lancaster, Calif...
...forget that what they're stomping to isn't too far from the same tradition that brought you "Hee Haw" (though Wright is to Hee Haw as the Stones were to the Monkees). Anyway, just returned from the Big Apple, and featuring the incomparable Spacey John Macey on pedal steel, John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mask, Boys, presented by the Harvard-Radcliffe Friends of Country, Country-Western, and Western Swing. A Country Dance, at Mather House Dining Hail, one dollar, BYOS, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Friday night...