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Even so, AEC Commissioner William Doub warns that there will be an "erosion of public confidence" if the "minor accidents" continue. One worrisome point: big new nuclear plants are designed to be in operation more than 80% of the time, but at least through 1972, were actually operating only 76% of the time. Perhaps the key problem is that every nuclear plant has been custom-designed. The AEC is now trying to standardize power-plant design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FUELS: The Nuclear Debate | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...opened the first formal Middle East peace talks since 1949. But after the top diplomats went home, it was the turn of the generals to grapple with the technicalities and tactics of disengagement. How successfully Major General Mordechai Gur of Israel and Brigadier General Taha El Mag-doub of Egypt dealt with those details would set the pace of negotiations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Grappling with the Tactics of Peace | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...sports information department at Annapolis said yesterday that he would probably swim today, but he did not swim last weekend against Columbia. It is doub?? that he is well enough conditioned to give the Crimson much trouble...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Swimmers Face Navy Today in Third Meet | 12/13/1969 | See Source »

...Cornell's pessimism is the loss of attackman Bruce Cohen, the league's leading scorer last season as a sophomore. Cohen broke his foot in an exhibition game last week and is out for a month. His injury leaves the Big Red with only one experienced attackman, junior John Doub, who scored only three points in Ivy play last year...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Crimson Stickmen to Battle Cornell In Decisive League Opener Today | 4/11/1964 | See Source »

...Doub, Kolodney, and Pereira, were defeated in the semi-finals by wrestlers from Syracuse, Army, and Pitt. The remaining seven entries from Harvard lost in the preliminaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Lose In 3 Semifinals | 3/12/1962 | See Source »

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