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...itself from dependence on coal for power. By 1960, said Lloyd, British oil refineries (expanding at breakneck speed) will provide enough fuel oil to replace 25 million tons of coal a year. Thereafter, he added, he is counting on atomic power to drive out "the specter of the coal gap...
...villagers of Ronchamp (pop. 1,900), in France's Vosges foothills, faced an old. familiar problem: how to rebuild the chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut atop a nearby hill called Haul Lieu. Hallowed since pagan days, Haut Lieu lies near the invasion route through the Belfort Gap, and in war it makes a prime military observation post. Over the centuries the chapel has been repeatedly destroyed; each time it has been faithfully rebuilt by loyal parishioners...
...arms burden (particularly in nuclear development). The State Department is convinced that Russia, essentially a poor nation, cannot keep up with the ever-increasing ante in the nuclear weapons game. Says State: if U.S. spending for defense were at the same rate as Russia's, considering the huge gap between the Soviet and U.S. economies, it would amount to $150 billion per year-almost four times the current U.S. rate. The U.S. wants first to probe the genuineness of the Russian desire to disarm, and secondly to be ready to argue the complex technical details if the desire proves...
...women's "special spiritual and emotional fitness to be rabbis." But after prolonged debate, the Reform group decided not to follow the Northern Presbyterians (TIME, June 6) in putting women in the pulpit, and voted to defer the issue for at least a year. It would widen the gap between the Reform and the Conservative and Orthodox branches of Judaism, and, said Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof of Pittsburgh, would be "too great and too needless a break with tradition...
...successful work is its continuing effort to rescue half the world's population from poverty and distress. With a yearly budget of barely one thousandth of the world's yearly arms bill, a handful of U.N. men and women are seeking by peaceful means to bridge the gap between the haves and the havenots...