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...committee, which includes such prominent Americans as Dr. Edward Teller, inventor of the hydrogen bomb, and Clare Boothe Luce, widow of the publishing magnate, is convinced that Cuba was a launching pad for the student insurrections and black rebellions which plagued the U. S. during...
Slowly, the members filed up the aisles to cast their votes, putting green ballots against the SST funding into a box beside Teller Yates, red votes to keep the plane alive into a box supervised by a pro-SST teller, California Democrat John McFall. The green line looked longer, and Yates, a normally gregarious man whose face was furrowed with fatigue from the long fight, broke into a grin. "Green cards here," he shouted happily, as he saw that victory was his. The vote was announced as 217 to 203 against the plane. In the mandatory final vote the funds...
...discouraged Representatives from staying away, which tends to strengthen the liberal forces, since liberals traditionally have been less conscientious about tending to the daily business of the Congress than conservatives. This year's House also contains 56 new members, and of these, 33 voted against the plane. The teller vote was not along party lines. Voting against the aircraft were 131 Democrats and 84 Republicans; for it were 114 Democrats and 90 Republicans...
...Boston University coed last week in praise of her cape. For any, all or none of her reasons, cape sales, round the country are still soaring. Both Filene's and Jordan Marsh in Boston report a swirl of business, as do Manhattan's Bloomingdale's, Bonwit Teller and Saks Fifth Avenue, which had a particularly hot run on monks' capes. In Los Angeles, where even the ladies who sell maps to movie stars' homes have been cloaked up for years, boutiques are having trouble keeping capes in stock. A favorite is St. Laurent...
Given the lack of operating experience and their novelty, why aren't reactors built underground as in Sweden and Switzerland? This has been advocated for many years by Dr. Edward Teller (proverbial father of the H-bomb) and others in this country. The reason is simple. As has been proven in Britain, which generates four times as much electricity from fission as the U. S., nuclear reactors are simply more costly than other forms of power. Underground construction would be prohibitively expensive...