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...flagship of a program that by the mid-1980s will make France the second largest producer of nuclear power, behind only the U.S. and ahead of West Germany, Japan and the U.S.S.R. France's progress runs counter to the trend in other Western nations, where opponents of atom power and rising costs have impeded its development just as the need for alternatives to oil has become most acute. Only the Soviet Union is developing nuclear energy as assiduously as France...
...Over the next five years it is scheduled to switch on new facilities at a rate of one every two months. By mid-decade, when 52 plants will be running, the country will be getting 55% of its electricity and a fifth of its total energy from the atom; in the U.S., atomic plants now account for 11.5% of electricity production and less than 4% of total energy needs...
...Columbia and Yale and running the SEC, his only opposition came from Senators who, astonishingly, thought he might be too conservative. Congress soon | learned otherwise. Three times Congressmen wanted to impeach him: in 1953, when he temporarily stayed the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for giving the U.S.S.R. atom bomb secrets; in 1966, when the thrice-divorced Douglas, then 67, married Cathleen Heffernan, then 23, and was accused by Kansas Republican Robert Dole of using "bad judgment from a matrimonial standpoint"; and in 1970, when House Minority Leader Gerald Ford accused Douglas of accepting a salary from the Parvin...
...MORE THAN 500 pages, the collection could stand some selective paring. First on the list to go would be several columns where Strout simply tries to do too much. An emotional protest against the use of the atom bomb somehow winds up as a plea to pay American diplomats salaries commensurate with what foreign envoys in the U.S. receive. Especially when he treats several topics in one column, Strout tends either to make bold assumptions with no justification at all, or to give only sketchy proof. For example, he dismisses Eisenhower's refusal to grant clemency to the Rosenbergs...
Enclosed in an inner envelope was an eightpage flyer captioned, "A Few Grains of Truth." The FBI memo says that the flyer is "highly critical of the American atom bomb project" and that it purports "to represent the shame and anguish of the American population on American preparation for war." The flyer exhorted, "There is no other way but for each firmly to resolve that life must be dedicated to peaceful endeavor...