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Spur from Subsidy. Today's atomic installations go up in units large enough to light whole cities, or even states. At Lake Keowee, S.C., Duke Power Co. is building a $157 million plant with Babcock & Wilcox reactors that will generate 1,664,000 kw.-enough for South Dakota, Vermont and Nevada. Commonwealth Edison is busy expanding its Dresden plant 50 miles southwest of Chicago into an 1,800,000-kw. complex capable of serving a population equal to that of Baltimore and San Francisco combined. As an increasing number of power companies do, Atlantic City Electric, Philadelphia Electric, Delmarva...
...named when it appeared that its chief victims were horses. But among 297 cases of human viral encephalitis in 1965, the U.S. Communicable Disease Center attributed no fewer than 172 to WEE, with four deaths. The outbreak reached epidemic proportions in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, Texas and Wyoming...
...craggy features of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt blasted out of the face of South Dakota's Mount Rushmore are world renowned. Less known is a rival of brobdingnagian proportions looming into sight on Stone Mountain, a freak outcropping of granite that juts 700 feet above the plains of Georgia, 16 miles from Atlanta. Subject of the Stone Mountain Memorial: the heroes and leaders of the Confederacy-Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas ("Stonewall") Jackson...
...Cliché, All True. The view from Lauren Bacall Bogart Robards' high-ceilinged fourth-floor apartment in the Dakota, Manhattan's imposing fortress of old-world luxury, is the dense green foliage of Central Park. For Betty Bacall, as her friends call her, the view from the 41st year is just as vernal. Little Sam, her four-year-old son by Jason Robards, trots into the room with his nurse for some hugs and kisses before being taken for a row on the park pond. As he pauses at the door, his mother says, "Throw me a kiss...
Sold & Glory. In Custer's Gold, Author Jackson, editor of the University of Illinois Press, re-examines the legend that Custer's death was directly linked to a U.S. cavalry expedition he led into the Black Hills of South Dakota two years before. Custer illegally invaded the Hills in the summer of 1874, the story goes, looking for gold. He discovered it and set off a gold rush that drove the hostile Teton Sioux out of their Dakota country and eventually forced them to make a last desperate stand on the banks of the Little Bighorn in Montana...