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Teddy Roosevelt not only enjoyed taking telephone messages for his six children, he seemed happiest when playing with kids-particularly the noisy, energetic clan of 16 Roosevelt young cousins who congregated in the summers at his sprawling house on Long Island's Oyster Bay. He loved to lead them on cross-country hikes, and if he climbed over a huge log or waded through a muddy pond, each child was expected to do the same. When one wet and bedraggled little Roosevelt tried to explain to her angry mother that she merely had followed the leader, the mother snapped...
...competition between Westinghouse and front-running General Electric for plant-building orders, nuclear power costs have dropped so far that atomic plants in some areas come cheaper than the conventional variety. Nine years ago, the first commercial reactor at Shippingport, Pa., generated electricity for 65 mills per kwh. The Oyster Creek plant of Jersey Central Power & Light, due to open next year, is expected to run for 4 mills per kwh, as does Consolidated Edison's Indian Point plant 30 miles up the Hudson River from Manhattan. That is 33% less per kw-h than it costs Con Edison...
...Rockville, Md., one noon last week, geophysicists closed the circuits of the world's first earthquake-information center, connecting 400 seismic reporting stations throughout the world. In Oyster Bay, L.I., oceanographers launched a new wire-drag ship to hunt for undersea hazards, joining a fleet of 14 research vessels already commissioned. Throughout the week, weather satellites scanned the atmosphere for hurricanes, while "Project Stormfury's" planes stood ready to try diverting any budding tropical storm. All these related functions-and many more-are now controlled and operated by the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), the bounciest baby bureaucracy...
...tongue twister says that "a noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more." Human beings respond in more subjective ways. Living near the end of a jet runway, for example, does not bother airport employees nearly so much as airplane haters, whose complaints about noise rise sharply just after crashes. Typewriters may irritate nearby people, but typists need some clickety-clack for job-satisfaction; using a noiseless machine, says J. B. Priestley, is like "typing on a steak and kidney pudding...
...Near Intalco, at a $50 million refinery, Mobil has built in a system for the bacteriological destruction of poisonous phenols, so that wastes discharged into Georgia Strait are not harmful to sea life. Every year Mobil surveys alternately the health of sea and plant life and the health of oyster and clam beds in tidal waters...