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...Threshold. But last year Mills recouped his own nerve and his committee's prestige. The three main bills of the session all fell within the jurisdiction of Ways and Means: trade, medicare and the tax revision bill that granted business firms a special credit on purchases of capital equipment. Kennedy considered Mills the key to the 1962 session, and so he proved to be. He refused to back medicare, and it died. But he steered the history-making free-trade bill through the House with a masterful sureness, defended the tax bill on the floor in a virtuoso performance...
Dispelling a Cloud. After slow beginnings, the development of power reactors has reached the point where, according to a recent AEC report to the President, atomic power is "on the threshold of competitiveness with conventional power" in parts of the U.S. where coal and oil are relatively expensive. During the 1970s, AEC predicted, nuclear power will become economically competitive "throughout most of the country...
...front door, a comber of fresh mud would break over the threshold and flow into the living room. When she couldn't stand it any more, she moved to cleaner quarters in nearby Carmel...
...also brushed aside Lodge's asserting that increased automation would mean fewer jobs, and stated: "We are on the threshold of the economic promised land...
Beyond the Threshold (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). Analysis and comprehensive view of the U.S. space program. Repeat...