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...plant to supply its Paducah, Ky. works, five utilities combined to do the job at Joppa, Ill.; last year 15 companies joined to put up the two biggest private-power plants in the U.S. (total capacity: 2.2 billion kw.) to supply power to AEC's Portsmouth, Ohio atomic plant. Utility men have not forgotten that their own future may lie in atomic energy. For the past couple of years, 27 power companies have been hard at work with AEC, figuring out when & how atomic power can be made commercially feasible...
...biennial conference of the Transport and General Workers' Union-Britain's biggest-met at Southsea, hard by Portsmouth docks. Bevanites hoped to make trouble. When bluff, able Arthur Deakin, 62, the union's general secretary, marched into the hall, packed with 800 representatives of the union's truck drivers and milkmen, trawlermen and stable lads, home helps and gravediggers, someone reminded him that Nelson's flagship Victory, with its hangman's yardarm, was not far away. Deakin smiled grimly. "We don't need the yardarm," said...
...Portsmouth, R.I., the town council proclaimed the end of a 53-year-old ordinance prohibiting speeds greater than 10 m.p.h. within the town's limits...
...Ship. As the Sverdlov loomed through the early morning mist, a hum of excitement spread through the dockyard city of Portsmouth: she was the first Russian warship to visit Britain since the war. Old hands quickly noted that she was trim and tidy, that she was correctly dressed overall to honor the Duke of Edinburgh's birthday. Royal Navy liaison officers also marked her power (twelve 6-in. guns in paired turrets fore & aft, twelve dual-purpose guns, ten torpedo tubes, double sets of minelaying cables) and her probable speed (35 knots). Said the Admiralty: "We find her very...
...picture, Landfall has remarkably little action. Instead, it concentrates on characterization, and its people, from admirals to air-raid wardens, are al ways plausible. The lieutenant (Michael Denison) is no idealized figure; he is young, cocky and rather callow. The unglamorous Portsmouth barmaid (Patricia Plunkett) with whom he falls in love is as ordinary as their romance. Director Ken (Robin Hood) Annakin has made Land fall into a simple, straightforward, almost old-fashioned story with some richly convincing detail. By making real and affecting both the fallibility and the nobility of ordinary people in a time of crisis, the film...