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...while, the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission seemed to be the most unpopular top-level job in Washington: the AEC chairman must not only possess considerable administrative ability, along with scientific and technological know-how, but he must also be able to thread his way through highly emotional issues while keeping the U.S. on a straight, or at least a safe, nuclear course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Administration: Open Mind | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...highest-voltage power controversy of the Eisenhower era-the Dixon-Yates project. The court ruled that the U.S. need not pay damages to Dixon-Yates for cancellation in 1955 of the utility combine's contract to build a $107 million electric-generating plant to supply power for AEC's atomic project. Reason: the contract was "infected by an illegal conflict of interest." The decision threw out a U.S. Court of Claims award to Dixon-Yates of $1,867,546 for out-of-pocket costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Government: End of Dixon-Yates | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...matter of passing interest. Private light and power companies believe that atomic power will never be economically feasible unless reactors can be built close to cities to reduce power transmission costs. Many a city is chary about admitting this forerunner of the atomic future. As they searched for explanations, AEC agents ran up against another sorrowful problem of the atomic age: What to do with the bodies of Seabee Electrician Richard Legg, 26, Army Specialist John Byrnes III, 22, and Army Specialist Richard McKinley, 27? Since they will long be radioactive, they will have to be buried in lead coffins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Idaho: Runaway Reactor | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

...Pursue the test-ban negotiations in Geneva with determination, not an equivocal policy alternating between the State Department and the AEC. If the U.S. and Russia agree, they can exert pressure on the younger members of the nuclear club and, even more importantly, on the People's Republic of China...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disarmament | 1/12/1961 | See Source »

...past year Jordan's King Hussein wrote in eloquent defense of his sometimes wayward brother, Crown Prince Mohammed; Kenya's Tom Mboya wrote to amplify his role in the London Conference on Africa. On the weighty subject of nuclear controls, former AEC Member Thomas E. Murray stated the case for continued testing, and Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Harold C. Urey argued in rebuttal that the issue was not technological but political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 6, 1961 | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

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