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...kilograms (220,000 lbs.)-the amount of uranium 235 to be made available under the Atoms for Peace program for lease or sale at home and abroad. Of the new 59,000-kilogram allocation, to be "distributed over a number of years," 1) 30,000 kilograms will be for use in the U.S., principally for power reactors on a lease basis; and 2) 29,800 kilograms will go abroad through sale or lease to individual nations (but not to Russia or the satellites) and to the European Atomic Energy Community when it is finally set up. Immediately after the announcement...
...build its vitality and prestige, said Murrow, is for the networks and stations to use their neglected right to editorialize. Last week, in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, Murrow's boss, CBS President Frank Stanton, also upheld the right of broadcasters to editorialize, but stressed how thorny a right it is. TV, complained Stanton, lacks the tradition and experience of the press in editorializing; moreover, "it would be most difficult [for networks] to take editorial positions acceptable to all our affiliated stations." Commentator Murrow had a more succinct explanation for the failure of broadcasters...
...extra-light weight has been produced under U.S. Air Force contract by Bjorksten Research Laboratories at Madison, Wis. Filled with bubbles made by hydrogen gas, the new metal is one-tenth as heavy as aluminum sheet, can be sawed, nailed, bolted or glued to other objects. Immediate military use: as lightweight parts in jet planes. Potential civilian use: as a fireproof, rot-resistant substitute for lumber in residential house construction...
...changing the sex or name of some of the characters, scenes from Les fourberies de Scapin, which Moliere penned right after finishing the present work--specifically, the portions dealing with the extortion of ransom money for a phony kidnapping. In principle I do not approve of the directorial use of scissors and paste; but in this case I am forced to admit that the practice did bolster somewhat the thin story line and turn out satisfactorily...
...written a dry and witty score fully in keeping with the play; and he presides over a small live orchestra (all in period costume) of winds and percussion, and plinks on a harpsichord from time to time himself. (It would be ungratefully pedantic to complain about the anachronistic use of a clarinet, which in Moliere's day had not yet been invented...