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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus emboldened, the council three weeks ago passed its first "ordinance," setting up the office of dogcatcher, requiring licenses for Richland dogs and specifying eight-foot leashes in public places. Nothing happened; the council was told that AEC lawyers would have to think it over. Last week, the Richland city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Model City | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The first question was tough: "Why do you vote so often with the Democrats and why don't you run on the Democratic ticket?" Glib Wayne Morse, a maverick on the Republican range who voted with the Democrats three times out of four in the 81st Congress, took nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Meet the People | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The one-man quiz show went on for more than an hour and a half before Morse called a halt. Political reporters who heard him thought that he came out on top. Morse is up for re-election next year; so far, his possible opponents, like his questioners, are still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Meet the People | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

At first blush, it was hard to believe that there could be much wrong with life in Richland, Wash., the Atomic Energy Commission's model residential city for the big Hanford Plutonium Works. Its 24,000 residents seemed to live in an atomic-age Utopia. With no effort from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Model City | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Richland's inhabitants, for the most part, seemed fairly satisfied with their lot. But the city's young Mayor David McDonald, an earnest, 34-year-old atomic chemist, missed the leavening of free enterprise. It was little things that set him thinking. Once he tried to stop some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Model City | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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