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...next week's referendum, students might consider writing in their suggestions for the improvement of the paper, whether they endorse or oppose the subsidy. They might advise, for example, that the News cut down operating expenses by buying cheaper newsprint or using plastic cuts instead of zinc cuts for photograph engravings. They might propose that a magazine form of the News appear biweekly or monthly, still carrying a summary of college news as well as features and editorials...
Currently worrying half a dozen Latin American countries are proposals before the U.S. Tariff Commission to raise lead and zinc duties, and congressional talk of new tariffs on copper and petroleum...
...tariffs, President Eisenhower last week asked for a five-year extension of the U.S. trade agreements act "with broadened authority to negotiate." In the specific case of lead and zinc tariffs, which within the law Ike could raise, Washington heard that the White House has quietly shelved its intention to give the U.S. mining industry that kind of relief. But the general level of tariffs is mainly up to Congress, struggling with its conscience and its lobbies...
...Angelo, Texas, "and all of a sudden it wasn't." Johnny and his friend Billy Hembree, 17, were sent to a hospital last week with minor injuries after trying to fly their do-it-yourself rocket, a 2-ft. copper tube filled with a mixture of zinc dust and sulphur. They lit it and ran. "It was just like the Flopnik [Vanguard]," said Billy, "going great at first. Then it just folded." When they returned to investigate, the rocket exploded. Johnny and Billy were lucky; a few weeks earlier, Science Teacher Garland Foster of the Floydada, Texas high school...
...group, however, warned that alcoholic cirrhosis has not been understood completely, citing the influence of other, secondary factors on the body's use of zinc...