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...Snowed Out. It was not snowing in Viet Nam, so the State Department dispatched a four-wheel-drive Jeep to bring Dean Rusk in from his snowbound home in Maryland for the Sunday conferences that followed the U.S. decision to end the bombing pause. The Pentagon rolled out four-ton trucks for its top officials. One lower-grade officer had to stay on duty in the command center for 42 hours because his relief could not make his way in. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, after flying in from Minneapolis, found the 25-mile highway from outlying Dulles Airport impassable, finally...
...away as South Africa, still suffered power blackouts when supplies ran low. Today, 94% of Australia's growing power needs are generated by coal, there is ample coke for the continent's expanding steel industry, and a quarter of last year's record 50-million-ton coal production was available for export...
...rising export trade made possible by new efficiencies has also created a need for big new coal harbors all along the Queensland and New South Wales coasts. At Port Kembla, for example, an $11 million facility loads ships at a 2,000-ton-an-hour rate, has cut loading time from four days to one. Cheaper coal makes Australia a competitive exporter, principally to Japan, which last year took 7,000,000 tons for steelmaking. U.S. coal still accounts for 48% of Japanese imports, but the Australian share has climbed to 30% and undersells U.S. coal by $4.74 a ton...
...Under the revisions, the guideline ceiling ought to be raised to 3.6%. Moreover, businessmen claim with cause that the Administration, while merely grumbling about wage increases, coerces observance of the price ceiling. Thus, when Bethlehem Steel last fortnight tried to raise prices on structural steel by $5 a ton, Johnson ordered all federal agencies to refuse to buy Bethlehem structurals. Yet, while New York's transit workers were winning an infinitely more inflationary contract, Johnson said nothing...
...happened, Kennedy himself found the guidelines little more than a handy thing to mention in State of the Union speeches. The guidelines had hardly anything to do with his successful though costly battle to make U.S. Steel roll back an announced $6-per-ton across-the-board price hike in 1962. On that memorable occasion, Kennedy simply felt that he had been double-crossed by U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, and he lost his Irish temper...