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...dawn of the nuclear age, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss predicted in 1954 that atomic fission would produce electricity so abundantly and cheaply that it would not have to be metered: the American people could just pay a low monthly charge and use as much as they wished. That naive optimism has long since vanished in the wake of zooming construction costs, endless delays in getting plants built and growing public opposition. In 22 years of commercial operation, nuclear power has won only a modest role in the nation's total energy picture. Now, in the shock...
This is certainly one of the happiest moments in my life. It is a historic turning point of great significance for all peace-loving nations ... Today a new dawn is emerging out of the darkness of the past...
...dawn, the tarantula twosome slithers, separately, into the bedroom of Malcolm and Kate, and on encountering a rickety desk that Malcolm has spent all night assembling, Trevor, with one helping touch, reduces it to a pile of kindling. Ayckbourn is an alchemist of incipient disaster, and his absurdist humor cuts through the veneer of domestic tranquillity with a serrated edge. Yet his surgery is oddly healing, a kind of revelation through copious laughter and minimal malice...
...Alan Ayckbourn. Some time in November he sharpens his pencils, gets out his pad of paper from Woolworth's and shuts himself up. Heather can tell when the time is approaching because "he gets slightly weirder and gradually slips into his night routine," writing from 9 p.m. until dawn. A week later he emerges with a new play. Some actually take only six days. One, The Norman Conquests, took eight, but that was a trilogy, so it should have taken 21. "One night," he told TIME's Gerald Clarke, "I finished two of the Normans at once...
...women's marches ended. Three weeks ago, thousands of women spontaneously rose up to protest the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's apparent opinion that women should return to the veil, or chador (a shapeless garment that covers a woman from head to toe). When they shouted, "In the dawn of freedom, there is no freedom," they were supported by many others who feared that the promises of the revolution were not being kept: workers, ethnic and religious minorities, landless peasants, middle-class...