Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whitefield Cottage, Great Missenden, Bucks, is an odd address for Patricia Neal to have settled into, for she was born in a mining camp in Packard, Ky., where her father was local transport manager for the South Coal & Coke Co. After two years at Northwestern, she naively headed for New York to become a star of Broadway plays-and became one in less than a year, winning a Tony award and the New York Drama Critics best-actress award for her performance in Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest...
...each week; last week was no exception. Britain was building the world's most powerful nuclear station on an island off the Welsh coast, and two private utilities announced that they will build West Germany's second commercial atomic plant near Lingen in, of all places, the coal-rich Ruhr...
About 70% of the world's power is still generated by steam, most of which is produced by coal or, increasingly, by oil and gas. Highly industrialized nations depend on improving the efficiency of these sources to meet much of their power need; U.S. utilities now build thermal power plants right on top of coal fields because it is cheaper to transport power than coal, and Britain and France cooperate on an under-Channel cable that feeds French power to Britain at the breakfast power peak, then reverses to feed British power to France at its 5 p.m. dinnertime...
...Eurocrats, that new breed of international civil servants employed by the Common Market, are dedicated men. In the interests of efficiency, they are pushing for a merger of the Market's three separate governing organizations -the European Economic Community, the European Coal and Steel Community and the Atomic Energy Community. They have also prepared voluminous reports about Western Europe's growing inflation, with its soaring prices and wages. One result: the 7,000 Eurocrats, who are now unionized, are demanding an 8% pay raise of their own. Last week, after the Common Market offered only 2%, the Eurocrats...
Most of all, they exercise an independent check on managers, often firing and hiring them. The man most responsible for lifting Lynn Townsend to the presidency of Chrysler is Pittsburgh's George H. Love, who is board chairman of both Chrysler and Consolidation Coal...