Word: wisconsin
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...wanted to show the things that had to be corrected," Hine modestly remarked. "I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated." This ambition arose quite early. Born in 1874 in Oshkosh, Wis., the son of a coffee vendor, Hine grew up working. "After grammar school in Wisconsin's 'Sawdust City,' " he recalled, "my education was transferred to the manual side of factory, store and bank. Here I lived behind the scenes in the life of the worker." But in 1901 he moved to New York and taught photography-the rudiments of the craft...
...cannot develop the leadership it needs," he writes, "unless its ablest young people have an opportunity to come together and learn under the best possible conditions and from the most accomplished scholars"--and he obviously doesn't foresee a time when that place will be the state University of Wisconsin...
Young, casual and appealing, a group of three men and a woman swept through half a dozen college campuses in Wisconsin last week, taking to the rostrums to advance a seriously embattled cause: nuclear power. The soft-sell evangelists, who go under the name of Campus America, are engineers and scientists employed by Westinghouse Electric Corp., a major builder of atomic plants. All volunteers, they receive only traveling expenses for their proselytizing efforts around the country. Yet in the year or so that the show has been on the road. Campus America has become an increasingly important weapon...
Small Output. Yet the very existence of the group-and its reason for being in Wisconsin last week-points up a worrisome energy problem: nuclear power, once regarded as the ultimate energy source, faces a more troubled future today than it did when the first experimental reactor was switched on in 1951. Only 63 nuclear-power plants are operating, and they account for a mere 2.9% of all U.S. energy production. Only seven atomic-power plants were licensed in 1976, and only three reactors were ordered, compared with...
...Missourians voted to forbid utilities to pass on costs of building power facilities until they were in operation, thus hampering construction of nuclear plants. And at Vermont town meetings early this month, residents of 28 communities voted to bar nuclear plants and waste-disposal facilities in their towns. The Wisconsin legislature is now considering several bills that would restrict or ban nuclear plants. In a January interview with the Conservation Foundation Letter, Russell Train, who headed the Government's Environmental Protection Agency under President Ford, called for "the phasing out and eventual elimination of all nuclear power...