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President Dwight Eisenhower in 1955 asked Congress for money for a nuclear-powered merchant vessel, partly for the technological payoff, partly to impress on the world U.S. interest in the peaceful atom. The 22,000-ton Savannah now stands the taxpayers nearly $47 million-about 50% more than a similar-sized, conventional ship. She will be able to cruise 300,000 nautical miles on a single fueling of her reactor. At first, the Savannah will be operated by the Maritime Administration as a sort of atomic-age tramp steamer, carrying up to 60 passengers and 10,000 tons of cargo...
Today's most self-consciously revolutionary fiction is the alitérature (non-literature) written by the so-called "anti-novelists" of France. Man is no longer viewed as an actor on the stage of life but as a microorganism, or atom, reacting to obscure laws of physics and biochemistry. Leaders of this movement are Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras and Michel Butor, whose new book, Degrees, is perhaps the most complex anti-novel to date. For, by some mysterious aliterary law, the more schematic and mechanistic an author's view of life, the more complicated...
...Atom Smashing. But the planes also had their lethal uses. Out of the blue one morning, the Swedish Saabs showed up with guns blazing over the copper-mining town of Kolwezi, 150 miles northwest of Elisabethville on Katanga's only rail line to the Atlantic Ocean. Within minutes, half a dozen railway locomotives and cars were out of action; then, with a roar, the town's main fuel tanks, filled with thousands of gallons of diesel oil, went up in a leaping column of flame and smoke. Near by was the village of Luilu, site...
...officials were still digesting the ominous fact of Soviet nuclear progress when Premier Nikita Khrushchev drove home the point with an atom-rattling, bomb-brandishing speech before a Moscow convention of the Communist-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions...
...chairman of its special Committee on World Peace Through the Rule of Law. Said Rhyne: "We must do the seemingly impossible by turning the opinion of most men from the view that our task is Utopian and beyond reach into the view that if man can split the atom and conquer outer space, he can also develop law rules and institutions to achieve and maintain world order...