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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eden left Chequers in a helicopter (the first British Prime Minister to travel in one) and flew straight to Farnborough, site of Britain's famed annual air show. There, with his grey head tilted back over his immaculate white collar, he studied the performance of the flashy jet bombers and fighters on which his government will spend most of its defense money. Most spectacular of the zooming jet planes was a delta-wing Vulcan bomber, that slow-rolled over the field. "Would you like to fly home in one?" an official asked. "Yes, but no rolls," the Prime Minister...
...Honolulu last week, 1,300 bishops, priests and laymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church met under Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill for their 58th triennial general convention-the first held outside the U.S. continent. The site was the result of controversy: Houston, originally chosen, had been rejected for its racial segregation. But controversy continued to break out at the convention itself...
...Transformer Co. the $7,000,000 contract, even though he had to strain to do so. He took advantage of a regulation that permits him to set aside all foreign bids in order to give business to any U.S. company located in a city where unemployment exceeds 6%. Pittsburgh, site of the plants that will make the Chief Joseph equipment, has a 6.1% labor surplus-just one-tenth of 1% over the line...
...Despite] all the inherent safeguards that can be put into a reactor," said Teller, ". . . it is important to emphasize . . . the public hazard that might follow a reactor accident . . . [Because of leaking radiation] it may be necessary to evacuate a large city, to abandon a watershed and . . . make the reactor site itself a forbidden area for years to come...
...Sunday supplement is only a small part of Marshall Field's big plans for the Sun-Times. Months ago wreckers started clearing a site on the Chicago River's north bank near Wabash Avenue. There Field will put up a $9 million newspaper plant, with a waterside dock for unloading newsprint and fast four-color presses that can turn out 112 tabloid pages...