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...steel industry is thriving, though not for very encouraging reasons. Its customers are stockpiling against the possibility of a strike beginning Aug. 1. Before then, industry leaders expect to be operating at flat-out capacity and to surpass their alltime quarterly production record of 28.5 million tons. Partly because of that pace, the nation's economy is expected to show a gain in the second quarter but then enter a sluggish third quarter, when the steel mills will be either shut down by a strike or slowed down while customers live off their stockpiles...
Donations for 1971 are expected to slightly surpass last year's figure. "Of course, that is excluding the possibility of a large bequest," Colt said. Last year's total did not include any such large contribution...
Potentially, California has always been one of the world's greatest vineyards. The state's favorable soil and climate rival and in some ways surpass that of the wine-producing areas of France. Only in recent years, however, have California vintners been able to overcome the popular impression-once founded on fact-that most of their wines lacked the mellow appeal of Europe's output. One consequence is a splurge of expansion that has lured both big corporations and a remarkable number of individual entrepreneurs into the California wine industry...
...shot put saw both Harvard and Brown hurlers surpass personal records. Harvard's Joe Naughton threw 57'5?". more than two feet better than his previous personal high. He took first place over Brown's Doug Price whose throw of 55'101/2" was his best by 9 inches...
...with fatigue than fight. There are no heroic actions; men shave, take muddy baths, clean up after shellbursts, write letters, stare vacantly at absolutely nothing while waiting for the next pointless action. The photographs have the stink of death, the feel of futility and, on any cocktail table, far surpass alcohol as a depressant...