Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plant, on which AEC is spending only $4,500,000 of the cost, has been un der construction since 1956 and is sched uled to be completed this fall. It would be the first big U.S. plant with a fast-breeder reactor, the type most likely to produce competitively cheap atomic power, since it produces more atom fuel than it consumes. At AEC hearings, a group of top scientists, led by Professor Hans A. Bethe of Cornell, testified that the plant could be operated without undue risk to the public. City officials of Monroe said they welcomed the plant...
...festival as lavish as its Western counterparts. Highlights of its month-long program: Mikhail Glinka's Russian and Ludmilla, a less well-known but far better work than Glinka's only other opera, A Life for the Tsar, Gustav Mahler's massive oratorio, Das Lied von der Erde. to be played in the ancient Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral; the first performance outside Russia of Dmitry Shostakovich's new Concerto lor Violoncello...
...place to avoid is the big ward. To be moved there from the little ward, which beds only six, is a sure sign that the doctors have sighted the end; to be switched from the big to the little is to be given a reprieve. Mrs. Van der Veen has had a stroke at home, but when she awakes, she is still in the little ward. She is 74. "A good age," the doctor says. But what can be good about it? Her husband is dead. Her only child is married to a poverty-bound painter in Paris...
...ugliness-women near death who can still be petty, cruel, gluttonous and vain. Yet she still has an eye for a youngster at play, for courting pigeons, for flowers. Author van Velde triumphs over her unattractive little world by accepting it for what it is. just as Mrs. Van der Veen, with all her fears, remains a figure of dignity till the end. Without tricks-and without sentimentality-The Big Ward leaves the feeling that it is not about dying but about a life, however commonplace, that has been lived well...
...said that we gave the Congo its independence in a state of chaos," Premier Gaston Eyskens told Parliament. Secretly, he pulled a large part of Belgium's Liberation Division out of West Germany, airlifted it to Congo bases for use if futher trouble occurred. Tough Walter Ganshof van der Meersch, onetime prosecutor of Nazi collaborators, was installed as Minister for General Affairs in Africa and sent to the scene with full powers to put down violence. The governors of several provinces were quietly replaced...