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...letting him run the AEC's research program, but establishing a new division to handle the vital issue of reactor safety. Shaw argued that safety was an integral part of design. But Ray insisted: "Duplication in this case can do nothing but good." Shaw quit. As for Ramey, Ray simply did not back his reappointment to the commission when his term expired in June. These acts outraged some members of the Joint Committee when Ray presented them as fails accomplis. But other committeemen were pleased by her independence. "Dixy Lee does what she believes in, and has brought...
...show," a friend says. "Instead, she took command." Before Ray's reign, the AEC was notably reluctant to discuss the environmental impact of many key policies-except in court. To help change that situation, Ray outmaneuvered two of the agency's most effective and powerful figures, James Ramey and Milton Shaw. Ramey, an AEC commissioner since 1962, was the liaison man with Congress. Shaw, director of reactor development and technology, was the supertechnocrat who got things done. Because of their persuasive lobbying, the Senate-House Committee on Atomic Energy, originally set up to be a watchdog group, never...
...With Ramey and Shaw gone, Ray was free to tackle what she considers the AEC's No. 1 problem: widespread public fear of nuclear power. She has made 13 speeches on the subject since taking office, and is organizing a series of open workshops in 28 cities for people "who are not sure of this nuclear stuff." Ray has no such doubts. She insists that "no industry is more closely regulated than the nuclear-power industry." AEC standards are so conservative, she maintains, that "when the least thing goes wrong, reactors are shut down immediately. That...
...surf or posing seductively on swings. The resulting volume is closer to Playboy than to Gray's Anatomy. The reaction to the book was predictable. In a letter to the 1,000-member Association of Women in Science (AWIS) of which she is president-elect, Dr. Estelle Ramey of Georgetown University's School of Medicine branded the book "an obscene denigration of women" that "demeans the whole profession of medicine." Many of her colleagues and even some students apparently agreed. When Dr. Ramey proposed a boycott of the book's publisher, Williams & Wilkins decided to revise...
...Galaxy flying freighter (wing span: 223 ft., height: 65 ft.), which can lift 21 times more cargo than any current U.S. air transport. "This would sure carry a lot of hay," marveled Johnson after touring the C-5A's barnlike cargo hold. Then he flew to Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico...