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...industry started off small: in 1957 the Government beached a submarine reactor at Shippingport, Pa., and converted it into a power station with an output of 60 MW. The earliest American nuclear facilities were built by private companies, such as General Electric and Westinghouse, as loss leaders to convince utilities that atomic power was the future. They needed little convincing. By the end of 1967 the U.S. had 28 times as much nuclear capacity on order as it did in operation. The capacity of plants under construction increased from...
Until that discovery, the earliest evidence of a living organism was more than two-billion-year-old fossils of primitive plants, which Barghoorn also discovered with Dr. Stanley Tyler of the University of Wisconsin during studies conducted in Southern Ontario...
...There are more records in medicine than any other endeavor in American history," says Richard J. Wolf, curator of Countway's department of rare books. "And since some of the earliest doctors in America practiced here in Boston, one idea for such a library developed in New England," he adds...
...capital. James Madison, writing in the Federalist of 1787, warned of the dangers facing all large legislative assemblies, noting that "the greater the number composing them may be, the fewer will be the men who will in fact direct their proceedings." Madison went on to observe that in the earliest republics, a single orator or an artful statesman was generally seen to rule with as complete a sway as if a scepter had been placed in his single hand...
...earliest clothes in the show carry the Christian Dior label. Saint Laurent was 18 when the Master of the New Look hired him as an assistant. The young man had been interested since childhood in theatrical costume and set design and was delighted to be apprenticed to Dior. Four years later, when Dior died suddenly of a heart attack, Saint Laurent was chosen by Textile Magnate Marcel Boussac, who owned the couture house, to succeed him. In 1958 he produced a brilliant debut collection that introduced an A-line dress called the trapeze. It was an instantaneous success. The French...