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...steel industry had shown even more restraint: its price move on tubular products, which comprised 10% of the industry's output, was the first such increase in eight years. Even so, baffled economists pointed out that it came at a time when the construction industry, a major user of steel pipe, is in decline. Moreover, it seemed to ignore the growing competition from foreign steelmakers, who accounted for about 10% of all sales in the U.S. last year. There is a suspicion in Washington that steel, for one, may yet have to rescind its price increases-not so much...
...Thriving Independents" [July 8], TIME notes that "to many a telephone user, it comes as a surprise to learn that even small independent companies have modern equipment and first-rate service." To enlarge upon this: the independents are responsible for most of the innovations and advancements in telephone exchange facilities. The dial telephone was developed and in general use among independent companies long before it was adopted by Bell. Another feature in general use by independents for half a century (but not yet used by Bell) is full selective ringing on rural multiparty lines. Independents introduced the handset or cradle...
...mechanical muscles that would give its user the strength of a giant, enabling him to lift 1,500-lb. loads with a minimum of effort. Nick named HardiMan, the machine is being developed by General Electric under a joint Army-Navy contract. Attached to the operator at his feet, forearms and waist, the steel-framed, pincer-armed skeleton mimics and amplifies its user's movements, could be used for bomb loading, underwater salvage and a variety of other functions, both military and civilian...
...many a telephone user, it comes as a surprise to learn that not all U.S. telephones belong to Mother Bell; others are startled to discover that even small independent companies like Gentsch's have modern equipment and first-rate service. The Bell System and its 23 subsidiary operating companies own 84% of the nation's 94 million telephones, but the percentage is dropping. The remaining phones belong to 2,423 independent companies, largely centered in the Midwest, Far West and South-along with all of Hawaii and Alaska. The independents last year had combined revenues of $1.7 billion...
...game" to put down the concerns men usually take seriously. Not that he would eliminate game playing: he says he only wants the games recognized for what they are. In practice, however, this requires a degree of judgment far beyond the capabilities of most mortals. Many a youthful LSD user, newly impressed with what suddenly seems to him the irrelevance of his activities, has dropped out of school a few weeks before he is due to graduate; soon thereafter he is dropping out of life as well, cultishly convinced that he and his psychedelic set are superior because they have...