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...news. The AEC reported that it is accelerating its program to develop an atomic-powered plane, announced "greater strides during the first six months of 1955 than in any earlier half-year . . . with the promise of nuclear-powered flight considerably brightened." A-plane reactor work is under way at Oak Ridge, Tenn., Evendale, Ohio and Fort Worth, Texas; new facilities will soon be built at Middletown, Conn. "Construction of the aircraft nuclear propulsion test area 'for testing aircraft reactors ... is nearing completion...
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...Oak Lawn, one school is so crowded that it has even considered a triple shift, with first-graders coming from. 5 to 9 in the evening. Though Northbrook has managed to build one new ten-room school, it does not have enough money left over to equip or furnish it. Last year Palatine found itself in an even more embarrassing position: without enough money to pay its teachers, it had to resort to a sort of scrip that had not been used since the great Depression...
...cream-colored coat, grey flannels and sneakers darted through the dew-drenched shrubbery of Paris' Bois de Boulogne. He paused to stare reflectively at a lush hydrangea bush, then hurried on to pick up a dead limb, a handful of dead leaves and a piece of old oak bark. To startled park gardeners an official explained: "That gentleman is a famous Japanese flower arranger, Monsieur Sofu...
...Sofu's harvest were ready for display in Paris' Bagatelle chateau. Withered leaves on a dead branch suspended from the ceiling had become a mobile titled Dance of the Dying Leaves; tiger lilies, hydrangeas and irises blended into a scarlet-and-gold Japanese Landscape; a moss-covered oak branch was part of a tableau, On the Edge of the Lake...