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...world's nations combined. Its power reactors generate 7% of the island's electricity, and other plants now being built or planned will raise that figure to 12% within three years. The Common Market's Six get only 1.5% of their power from the atom, but that output will be trebled by plants now abuilding. France, the Continent's biggest investor in atomic power, intends to increase its generating capacity as much as tenfold by 1970. The Market's nuclear authority, Euratom, predicts that by 1980 the Six will be producing 280 billion kilowatt-hours...
...Jewish building, and he served two years in jail in New York for inciting to riot. And all the time he never let his fellow Klansmen know that he was a Jew. Said Roy Frankhouser, Grand Dragon of the Pennsylvania Klan: "It was the best-kept secret since the atom bomb...
...were Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie (Scotland), Fur Trader John Jacob Astor (Germany), Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (Scotland), the Du Fonts from France and Yeast Tycoon Charles L. Fleischmann from Hungary. German-born Albert Einstein, Hungarian-born Edward Teller and Italian-born Enrico Fermi helped the U.S. to unlock the atom's secrets. There have been more immigrant musicians than one can shake a baton at, from Irving Berlin (Russia) and Victor Herbert (Ireland) to Artur Rubinstein (Poland) and Dimitri Mitropoulos (Greece...
...between $69 and $186 a month to rent their duplexes and single homes. They will be given first choice in buying their current residences at prices as much as 25% below recently appraised values. Not for sale: the massive scientific laboratories, where half the research is still devoted to atomic weaponry, half to peaceful applications of the atom...
...national interest came first, as Pentagon Planner Seymour Deitchman points out, "in the use of the atom bomb, the Mexican war, the war with Spain over Cuba, the destruction of American Indian tribal society, failure to support the Hungarian rebellion. We were able to rationalize our moral problems, which were real and recognized, because the political and economic problems were greater and more urgent." Similarly, Kashmir is of national interest to Indians, who believe that its loss would put in jeopardy hundreds of other princely states and consequently imperil India's tenuous union itself. It is also of national...