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Some private utilities are still bitter about TVA. Kentucky Utilities Co. is fighting a battle to hold onto its facilities in Paducah, Glasgow and Princeton, Ky., where residents are trying to buy the plants, then buy power from TVA at a 30%-to-50% saving in electricity bills. But the once-widespread bitterness against the TVA has been largely muted, especially since private powermen no longer fear it will spread over the nation. TVA's congressional bond amendment has a clause limiting its expansion to no more than five miles beyond its 1957 boundaries...
Died. Mary Agnes ("Polly") Thomson, 75, longtime word-of-finger translator and "sister" to blind, deaf Author-Educator Helen Keller; after long illness; in Bridgeport, Conn. Glasgow-born Polly Thomson, who never lost her Scottish burr, came to the U.S. in 1913, was hired by Helen Keller's formidable teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, as secretary, stayed on after "Teacher" died in 1936 asking that Helen and Polly-"my two children"-remain together. Polly's "talking" fingers, working at a rate of 85 words a minute tapping out letters in Helen Keller's palm, became Helen...
...pleasant land" of 150 years ago has been transformed into latter-day Poet John Betjeman's "dear old, bloody old England of telegraph poles and tin." All told, more than 40% of the British population lives in seven monstrous conurbations surrounding London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle and Glasgow...
...labor and industry or to the "new towns"-self-contained communities complete with factories, such as Stevenage (pop. 30,000), which were thrown up by the planners' decrees. So far, 420,000 Britons have been resettled in the 15 new towns already built. In the next ten years, Glasgow alone plans to export 300,000 slum dwellers, many to towns clear across Scotland...
Although this may be taken as a joke against both sides, Author Granick (who has taught at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and is now at the University of Glasgow on a Fulbright grant) has catalogued the Soviet Org Man's habits and habitat with stern scholarship; his book has more graphs than laughs. But the irony is still there-the rublerouser in his square suit by Hart Schaffner and especially Marx, concerned about work schedules, procurement, and the problem of keeping down with the Joneses...