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...about 60,000 kw. When it does, the plant is expected to break the cost barrier, become the world's first nuclear power station to produce electricity as cheaply as conventional plants in the same region. Says P.G. & E.'s President Norman Sutherland, 62: "I think the breakthrough into the era of the economical use of atomic power is here-or if it isn't, it is so close that we practically have to count on it." Quickening the Pace. The Humboldt Bay project is only one of P.G. & E.'s new undertakings. Although...
...with The Book of Knowledge and the Americana as a help to home learning, but the ultimate stakes are much higher. Grolier President Edward J. McCabe Jr. hopes it will be the first big step toward revolutionizing the $300 million-a-year textbook industry. Says he: "The first educational breakthrough was the film strip. Then came educational TV. The teaching machine may well be next...
...else, the U.S., Russia, Britain and France have been content to rest their atomic monopoly on the prohibitive cost and inordinate difficulty of building the monster gaseous-diffusion plants and plutonium-yielding reactors in which they carry out large-scale production of fissionable materials. Now the West German scientific breakthrough appears to have smashed that barrier and opened the way to atoms for anybody with the technologists competent to handle them...
...seemingly simple idea evolved: the room would be a simple rectangle, half of the seats set in stadium fashion, the other half on elevators capable of being shifted from proscenium style into a second position, making space for the open platform stage (sketch No. 4). Shortly after this breakthrough, Bob Chapman introduced M. Michel St. Denis, noted French producer and theater expert whom the University had asked to advise on the design concept. We spent many profitable hours exchanging theories and ideas. St. Denis was sympathetic with our views, but emphasized "concentration of the audience toward the place of action...
Galbraith's The Liberal Hour, with which I began this piece and from which I have wandered a good deal, is a far better book than Conscience of a Conservative and Coming Political Breakthrough. It is not a campaign document, nor even necessarily an election-year product, and thus does not suffer from the terrible solemnity of the other two works. The Liberal Hour is a brief, entertaining collection of lectures and writings on a fairly wide variety of subjects; only one section (containing four selections) touches directly on important political topics...