Word: mckay
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Last week, in his first major decision on public power policy, Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay gave Idaho Power the green light to go ahead with its three dams. In a letter to the Federal Power Commission, which must still approve the project, McKay noted that the privately built dams would produce almost as much electricity and flood protection as Chapman's Hell's Canyon project. The first of the private dams could also be completed seven to eight years sooner. In any case, there was now little chance that Congress would vote funds for such a project...
Massachusetts led the list with 109 residents receiving scholarships. Twelve of these received National Scholarships, the highest award given by the College to incoming freshmen. Only one local student received a Gordon McKay National Scholarship, newly established for men interested in engineering science...
Bruce Chalmers, Professor of Physical Metallurgy at the University of Toronte, has been named Gorden McKay Professor of Metallurgy here, Provost Buck announced last night...
M.I.T. varsity: Bow, Lindstrom; 2, Kolodkin; 3, Stern; 4, Conway; 5, Riedinger; 6, Palmer; 7, Hartrick; stroke, Buntschuh; Cox, McKay...
...Governor of Guam: Ford Q. (for Quint) Elvidge, 60, Seattle lawyer. When Interior Secretary Douglas McKay asked him whether he would accept the governorship, Elvidge protested that he was not ready to "retire to a South Sea island and sit under a palm tree"; he agreed to take the job only after McKay assured him that it was "a tough assignment." What makes it tough is that the Navy and the civilian administrators are waging a cold war to decide who is going to run the island...