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Fact & Fission. Nuclear power plants are also growing bigger. Six years ago, the first commercial reactor at Shippingport, Pa., generated 60,000 kw. Last week Niagara Mohawk Power announced that it will build a 500,000-kw. plant in upstate New York for $100 million. New York City's Consolidated Edison plans a 1,000,000-kw. plant in Queens. Among others: > Pacific Gas & Electric's on Bodega Head, Calif. (325,000 kw.), due for 1966 completion at a $61 million cost...
...trackless wilds of northern Quebec to build the dams that now power the smelter at Arvida (a contraction of Arthur Vining Davis). For the still bigger Kitimat power project in British Columbia, it carved a ten-mile tunnel into a mountain, created a waterfall 16 times as high as Niagara Falls and built a smelter with an awesome annual capacity of 300,000 tons...
Geneva is to diplomats what Niagara Falls is to honeymooners. Every meeting of every conference is filled to the brim with endless, multilingual talk. Only rarely does the Palais, one of the world's largest office buildings, come to life with such dramatic moments as Emperor Haile Selassie's moving speech against Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia, or the sight of French Premier Pierre Mendès-France, watch in hand, signing at 4 a.m. the accord ending the Indo-China war to meet the deadline he had set himself on taking office...
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, and Jean Peters in Niagara...
...nonexistent son for 21 years-having previously suggested various possible reasons for this neurotic myth, such as that Martha's father didn't like her. Coming after two acts of cascading turbulence, this plot resolution is woefully inadequate and incongruous, rather like tracing the source of Niagara to a water pistol. There are other weaknesses. The play is needlessly long (3¼ hours), repetitious, slavishly, sometimes superficially Freudian, and given to trite thoughts about scientific doom...