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...held out by Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy this week, in the first complete official survey on the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Even though the report was hedged with plenty of ifs, it still put the U.S.-and perhaps the rest of the world-at the brink of a startling revolution in electric power, agriculture and industrial production...
...waging peace, based upon moral principles of decency and justice and right. If you are going to do that and are not going to be guilty, every time the thing looks dangerous, of a Munich, you have got to stand firmly. You may interpret that as being at the brink of something, because the other fellow can react according to his own desires and what he believes to be his best interests...
...made more money out of the great Brink's robbery than any of the men who robbed Brink's is still at large-and still making money out of it. For the Boston Globe's Joseph F. Dinneen, 57, dean of New England crime reporters, the big heist got him a Globe column called "Brink's Notebook," a handful of magazine articles, a book (Anatomy of a Crime) and a movie sale (Six Bridges to Cross). Dinneen's estimated haul, before taxes: $150,000. Last week Dinneen was looking for more pay dirt...
...dingy private office half a block away from the Globe, where callers who require privacy can get it. But a Dinneen is still a fixture in the Globe city room: his son, Joe Jr., 32, also is a crime specialist. Last week, while his father was back on the Brink's beat, young Dinneen drew the other top current crime assignment, a murder trial in Plymouth. Another son, Robert, 30, is a newsreel cameraman-who covered the same trial for TV. Says Dinneen: "We are keeping it in the family...
...Last year the Massachusetts legislature extended the statute of limitations on robbery from six to nine years, largely as a result of the Brink's case. But a great many lawyers doubted that the extension would have applied to the Brink's robbery, since it occurred before the extension...