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...long been public, but now on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, between 11 o'clock and noon, visitors are admitted to a whole succession of magnificent rooms in which every perfect detail seems to breathe history. The mid-18th century Venetian Room with its Murano glass chandelier may well surpass any interior of the same period remaining in Venice itself. The Grand Salon contains a golden cradle that bears eloquent witness to the natural expectations of a Doria-Pamphili heir: carved on the base are a bishop's staff, a doge's hat and a Pope...
West Germany's steel industry rose from the ashes to surpass its prewar record in steel production, has raised its capacity to 29.3 million tons yearly. Led by the huge combines of Alfried Krupp and August Thyssen-Hutte, the German industry is flexing its muscles, reconcentrating once more to make itself more efficient, aggressively seeking out new markets from India to South America. In Great Britain, heavily bombed in the war, the steel industry is now among the world's most modern. Britain's biggest steel company is United Steel Companies Ltd., whose chairman, Sir Walter Benton...
Tuesday's time was the first promising one for the first eight, but last year's undefeated Freshmen did not surpass it until two weeks later in the spring. Coach Bill Leavitt feels that a winning boat must be able to finish a race with a forty stroke per minute cadence. In Tuesday's race the first eight finished at a 34, and had they been able to push up the stroke they could have beaten...
Achievement of such a range would surpass the best ICBM effort so far--the Atlas which the Air Force hurled 6,325 miles on Nov. 28. It also would put almost all the United States within reach of Soviet weapons...
About 1000 undergraduates remain to be solicited, drive officials estimate, and after they have been seen, "we will obtain and surpass our goal...