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After Churchill was driven from office by the Socialists in 1945, Macmillan, along with Rab Butler, played a workhorse role in modernizing Tory doctrine and preparing the party's electoral comeback. His reward: the Ministry of Housing, where, working a 16-hour-a-day clip, he brought the building of houses in Britain from...
During the Northern Hemisphere's winter, a summer of a sort comes to the great white continent of Antarctica, bringing 24-hour-a-day sunshine and a brief, spongy softening of the coastal pack ice. That cold and flowerless southern summer is the season when dedicated men arrive by ship or plane to extend man's scanty knowledge-and tenuous possession-of the earth's most inhospitable region...
...whom he worked. The AEC, fearful that Twitchell might disclose atomic secrets during periods of delirium, promptly moved the young engineer into a private room in the Letterman Army Hospital at San Francisco's Presidio. Last week William Twitchell died, thereby at last escaping the 24-hour-a-day surveillance which specially screened male nurses had maintained over him for the past two months...
...Aluminum Co. of Canada launched its $550 million Kitimat project in British Columbia, the biggest single industrial enterprise in the country. Work moved at a 24-hour-a-day pace on a ten-mile water tunnel through the Rockies, a 280-foot power dam, and the world's biggest aluminum mill to open in 1954. ¶ Iron Ore Co. of Canada got well under way on 360 miles of track through the wilderness of northern Quebec to its $200 million iron ore project in Ungava. ¶ A record $250 million was invested in exploration and development of Alberta...
Liberty started three years ago by offering major-league baseball broadcasts to the backwoods (TIME, Sept. 4). Last year it expanded from a six-to a 16-hour-a-day network, added music, comedy and drama to its staple of news and sports, now has 431 affiliates in 43 states, Hawaii and Alaska, and is outranked only by Mutual's 545. McLendon, who still announces an occasional major-league game from Dallas with the help of play-by-play descriptions wired in from Manhattan (though by now most of the games come in live), is full of plans...