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DIED. Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, 83, president of the huge, antiunion J.P Stevens textile company for much of the past half-century; in Edison, N.J. Under Stevens, the 170-year-old company became the U.S.'s second largest textile firm (1982 revenues: $2 billion), but lost its fight to bar unions in 1980, when it was cited for violating fair labor practices. Stevens' greatest personal fame came in 1954, when as Secretary of the Army he gamely defended himself for 13 days against the attacks of Joseph McCarthy in televised hearings that eventually led to the demagogic Senator...
...Dunbar High School in Fort Myers, Fla., he was a triple threat: in football, an all-state wide receiver; in basketball, an all-conference playmaking guard; in track and field, a state champion in the 440-yd. run. An honors student, he went on to Edison Community College in Fort Myers but dropped out after 1½ years to enlist in the Army. He was given a medical discharge after 17 months because of attacks of grand mal epilepsy. He married, fathered a son and went back to college, this time in California. His marriage soured, and he returned...
...would lead to disastrous results" received scant attention within the Commission for close to twenty years. Indeed, the A.E.C. allowed reactors to be built close to major metropolitan areas such as New York and Chicago. (Still, it is to the Commission's credit that it did not approve Consolidated Edison's proposal for a nuclear plant in Queens, across the East River from midtown Manhatten...
...Attractions range from a 12-ft-wide cash register and 2-ft.-tall puppets to a video-game room where visitors can try their hand at running dozens of different types of firms. There will even be a Hall of Giants in which colossal likenesses of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and other business heroes peer far above the heads of passersby...
Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co. is generating a little extra electricity these days. Twice a week 16 representatives of the utility firm visit the Michele Clark Middle School in a poverty-ridden district on Chicago's West Side to teach the principles of supplying energy to the neighborhood. Youngsters from eight classes survey the school's area, christened Clark City for purposes of the project, and assess the needs through scale drawings and detailed models, complete with wiring, batteries and lights. Says Anton Anderson, 12: "I know all about kilowatts now and B.T.U.s. That's British...