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FAREWELL TO STEAM by David Plowden. 154 pages. Stephen Greene Press. $8.95. An elegiac account of an age defeated by oil and jet engines-the lake and river steamboats and the great locomotives that opened up the continent...
...Washington. British Atomic Chief Sir Edwin Plowden told a World Bank symposium that when the world's first civilian power plant starts operating at Calder Hall this month "the total cost of power . . . should be approximately the same as that from coal-or oil-fired stations in the United Kingdom." Plowden also sketched a timetable for commercial nuclear power in other parts of the world, foresaw its arrival in France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain and South Australia in the early 1960s. Scandinavian countries in the 1970s. Russia and the U.S., added Plowden. "will have a number of 'power...
...voice belonged to Grace Elizabeth Crum Gruenther, his wife for 33½ years. They have two sons, Donald, who is a major and Richard, who is a captain in the U.S. Army. * A three-man committee (Averell Harriman, Sir Edwin Plowden, Jean Monnet) appointed to examine each nation's economy, and decide what it should contribute. Their goals, approved by a NATO council meeting in Lisbon in February 1952: 50 divisions, half of them active, by the end of 1952, increasing to 70 the next year, to 97 by the end of 1954. Three years later, Lord Ismay admitted...
Money. The big question is who pays, and how much. Lisbon will hear a report from NATO's Three Wise Men-W. Averell Harriman of the U.S., Jean Monnet of France, Sir Edwin Plowden of Britain-who have been working secretly and late on the figures. Though most NATO partners fear they can no longer carry the defense load without serious inflationary crises at home, the Wise Men have urged Belgium and Canada to ante up more. They asked West Germany to contribute 13 billion marks; Germany said it could afford only 10; they compromised at 11 billion...
Because the military experts of SHAPE and the politicians of the various nations could not get together on an answer at the North Atlantic Council session in Ottawa last September, the U.S.'s W. Averell Harriman, France's Jean Monnet and Britain's Sir Edward Plowden were chosen to allocate fair shares for all. Last week the Three Wise Men, as their NATO colleagues have dubbed them, made their recommendations to the Temporary Council Committee (the Twelve Apostles), on which all NATO members are represented. Gist of the Wise Men's report...