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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Promise & Doubt. Target of the Reuther forces was the Power Reactor Development Co., a combine of Detroit Edison Co., 17 other private utilities and seven manufacturing firms, which will finance and operate the $45.5 million Monroe plant under the leadership of Detroit Edison President Walker Lee Cisler. P.R.D.C. is building the first commercial "fast-breeder" reactor, the type most likely to produce competitively cheap atom power, since it produces more atom fuel than it consumes. Late in 1955, the first experimental fast breeder ran out of control at the National Reactor Testing Station, melted its own fuel with more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: Power Play | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...clear, he said, that the West has never been in sight of the 1952 target of 85 military divisions in the central sector of Europe, and that while tactical nuclear weapons and the possibility of an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile had lessened the danger somewhat, they also created great uncertainty as to when, and in what manner, NATO forces would actually be used...

Author: By John G. Wofford, | Title: Gaitskell Asks Neutral Central European Zone | 1/10/1957 | See Source »

Night of the Hunter. In Manitowoc, Wis., Rabbit Stalker Raphael Rusch was fined $100, agreed to pay $250 damages after he chased his target through the woods, lost it, took aim in a fit of pique, assassinated Farmer Arthur Wegner's horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 7, 1957 | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...Power (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS). Target Ploesti, the raid on Rumania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jan. 7, 1957 | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...LAST HURRAH, by Edwin O'Connor. A lusty, irreverent and affectionate fictional portrait of a shrewd gasbag who became a powerful political boss. The story stays on target so steadily that Boston's ex-Mayor Jim Curley still thinks he was having his picture taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: THE YEAR'S BEST | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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