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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...
Divorced. By Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill Russell, 44, daughter of the Duke of Marlborough and partner, with Chilean-born Art Dealer Guy Burgos, in Manhattan's Burgos Galleries: Edwin Russell, 52, publisher of the Harrisburg Patriot-News; on grounds of extreme cruelty, after 23 years of marriage, four children; in Reno...
...Duke of York (who later became King of England) and Thomas Hardy attended his wedding, and a cousin, who later became a bishop, performed the ceremony. The bride's father was the Duke of Devonshire and Governor General of Canada, and the tribe of Cavendishes was represented in all its complex consanguinity, unrivaled since the virtual disappearance of the Bourbons from Europe...
...this year, partly because of decreased giving by grumbling parishioners. Pike has delighted some and scandalized others by allowing a policy of open communion in his diocese, and by permitting the use of Grace Cathedral for a modern art exhibit, a jazz mass, and the premiere of Duke Ellington's In the Beginning...
...fumbled three times against Texas Christian, still won the game 14-10-partly because the Horned Frogs fumbled four times themselves. If it was variety, why, there was a whole alphabet of offensive formations out on the field: split T, spread T, power I, shifting I, crooked I. Duke used something called the split-end multiple T to bury West Virginia 34-15, and Michigan State's wing T soared over North Carolina State...