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...Canada expects to be producing uranium at an annual rate of $300 million, the bulk of it in the Blind River area, where all the mines are located within a ten-mile radius of the town of Elliot Lake. Two years ago Elliot Lake was only some lines on a chart. Today it has 400 completed homes, two large trailer camps with some of the biggest, plushest trailers parked anywhere on the continent, and a population of 4,000 expected to swell to 25,000 by 1958. Around Elliot Lake traditions are being made so fast that an enterprising...
Your Oct. 1 cover story, speaking of Jacob Javits, noted that "on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, Jewish ritual forebade his riding in a car," and he therefore "walked across a twelve-mile radius on Manhattan's Upper West Side to visit six synagogues." Your readers ought to know that the same Jewish ritual that forbids riding also forbids electioneering on Yom Kippur...
WHEN A New Jersey clothing chain opened a new branch at Union Township one day this month, 20,000 first-day shoppers from a 30-mile radius jammed highway 22 for four solid miles. Main reason for the stampede: the store opened on a Sunday, thus permitting entire families to do their shopping together. Such booming Sabbath business has become a nationwide phenomenon-and one of the hottest controversies in U.S. retailing...
...foot from the swank, twelve-room Park Avenue apartment where he lives with his strikingly handsome wife Marion and their three children (Joy Deborah, 8, Joshua Moses, 6, and Carla, 1). Exposing his conservatively tailored $200 suit to a driving rain, he walked across a twelve-mile radius on Manhattan's Upper West Side to visit six synagogues. It was 8 p.m. before a bedraggled Jack Javits returned from the last intoned "Shalom Aleichem." Said he: "I feel more dead than alive...
...Avenue is becoming the prestige address of U.S. business. From its new Park Avenue perch, the Astor Plaza will look southward on the bronze-skinned, 38-story House of Seagram, now a building on the next block, westward at blue-green Lever House, just across Park Avenue. Within a radius of two blocks on Park Avenue, four other office buildings are going up, while buildings have been completed for Aramco, Universal Pictures and Colgate-Palmolive...