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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million Kitimat project,* which includes the world's biggest aluminum factory and the biggest power development ever built by private enterprise, went into operation for the first time. Power from a mountain generating station was cabled 50 miles overland to a new aluminum smelter on the site of the old Indian village of Kitimat. The alumina ore came in Alcan freighters from Jamaica through the Panama Canal to Kitimat's newly dredged harbor. In the Kitimat smelter, the power processed the alumina into the first 4O-lb. ingot of Kitimat aluminum. Now set to produce 180 million...
...Winning? In Hiroshima, Japan, meanwhile, Christianity made another comment on the Bomb-by dedi cating the handsome new Church of Our Lady of the Assumption on the site where the old one stood before it was destroyed nine years ago by the first ABomb. Jesuit Father Hugo Lassalle (who himself survived the bombing) built this World Peace Memorial Church with contributions from Japanese converts plus a $100,000 anonymous contribution from the U.S. In this new church, standing at the birthplace of the atomic age. Christians of all denominations might find a symbol. Various Christian assemblies last week gave...
...Staff Committee; in 1949 he was given the job of coordinating plans for the new academy. With an earnest but easygoing diplomacy, he whittled down the bewildering array of blueprints, picked an able committee of civilians and airmen (among them: Charles A. Lindbergh, General Carl Spaatz) to choose a site. Finally, in 1953, having retired to San Antonio, General Harmon was summoned back to help push the whole project through Congress...
...medical staff (although the doctors were reinstated later). Last week, after a stormy court hearing, County Judge John Pentz refused to help Haluska get his job back, rejected his demand for court action against the doctors and trustees. Angrily, Haluska announced that he would look for another Hoxsey clinic site near Spangler, Pa. "to serve suffering humanity...
...guarantees would probably include the protection of Laos, Cambodia and South Viet Nam, although these countries, with their freedom restricted by the Geneva agreement, might not be able to join SEATO. Probable signatories: the U.S., Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the Philippines, possibly Burma and Ceylon. Likely conference site: Baguio, the Philippines' mountainside summer capital. Probable date of the conference: early September. The meeting will be brief, allowing enough time for the foreign ministers to hurry to New York for another fight against Communist infiltration, at the convening of the ninth General Assembly of the United Nations, where...