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...almost all are conventional water-cooled reactors fueled by uranium 235, a rare isotope of uranium that is becoming increasingly difficult to mine and process economically. To avoid a uranium "crunch," President Nixon has ordered development by the 1980s of a new type of reactor called the fast-breeder, a name derived from its unique capability: during the chain reaction, surplus neutrons from the atoms of U-235 in its core bombard a surrounding blanket of U-238, a much more plentiful but nonfissionable form of uranium, and transmute large amounts of it into plutonium. This fissionable byproduct can then...
...full-page ad in the New York Times offered his-and-her Phantom V Rolls-Royce limousines, custom-built by the famed James Young Coachworks, for $250,000. Five years ago, one of the cars was sold for only $8,000 to a dealer by an eccentric Maryland horse breeder who used the car as a hay wagon. The market is glutted with high-priced limousines that were supposedly once owned by Hitler. Most of these, the experts say, are fake...
...million over estimated 1973 spending and too little to keep pace with inflation. Moreover, most of the increase will be absorbed by the extra funds that have been allocated to what some Government officials call Nixon's "sacred cows": the development of new sources of energy, including the breeder reactor (up $130 million); the Administration's war on cancer and heart disease ($92 million); reducing damage from earthquakes and other natural disasters ($18 million); drug control and rehabilitation ($2,000,000); and research into new methods of crime prevention and control ($12 million). At the same time...
Died. Christopher T. Chenery, 86, Virginia gentleman and horse breeder who in 1936 built the Meadow Stables in Doswell, Va., training ground for a long line of champion thoroughbreds that included Riva Ridge, winner of last year's Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, and Secretariat, Horse of the Year in 1972; in New Rochelle...
ENERGY. Although environmentalists may object, a major Nixon aim is a matter of genuine national urgency: to find new fuel and electrical-energy sources for the U.S. This will include support of oil supertankers, an Alaskan pipeline, nuclear breeder-reactor plants, more offshore drilling...