Word: provenance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given the lack of operating experience and their novelty, why aren't reactors built underground as in Sweden and Switzerland? This has been advocated for many years by Dr. Edward Teller (proverbial father of the H-bomb) and others in this country. The reason is simple. As has been proven in Britain, which generates four times as much electricity from fission as the U. S., nuclear reactors are simply more costly than other forms of power. Underground construction would be prohibitively expensive...
Certainly Calley is innocent until proven guilty. Assuming he was a terribly mixed-up soldier acting in a very irrational manner, or that he was an eager-to-please young officer following the orders of a mad superior-neither of these would qualify him for hero status. To place him on a pedestal and deluge him with fan mail is to me incomprehensible...
...report's section on students states, "Both in the area of academic affairs and administrative policy, the students have reportedly proven themselves to be a creative and progressive force in developing the destiny of this school...
Those who do appear are given a long, rather fatherly introductory lecture by Judge Harold M. Mulvey on the legal procedures to be followed in the case and on certain of the principles involved, such as the importance of presuming the accused innocent until proven guilty...
Uneasy Seat. In theory, a secret agreement ought to be so hard to prove that the courtroom odds should favor the defense. In practice, the prosecution often has the advantage. For one thing, jurors tend to accept an alleged conspiracy as a proven fact when they see defendants grouped together in the courtroom. Each one of the defendants occupies "an uneasy seat," wrote the late Justice Robert Jackson of the U.S. Supreme Court. "It is difficult to make his case stand on its own merits in the minds of jurors who are ready to believe that birds of a feather...