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...morning, after the Democratic governors breakfasted with their party's congressional leaders as guests of Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House dining room, Shivers and Butler huddled between the steam tables in the serving kitchen. When they emerged, red-faced from external and internal heat, Chairman Butler said: "The groundwork has been laid for unity and strength in the Democratic Party in Texas. If the Democratic Party is realistic enough to look for converts to the party ... it generally will have to be realistic enough to take back the penitents...
...Industrial Revolution. With its deepwater port of Liverpool (pop. 790,000), its damp climate and plentiful coal, Lancashire was for a century the cotton clothier of half the world. Lancashire men invented the first machines of mass production (the Crompton mule, the spinning jenny), were the first to use steam to drive them. But the price of industrial precocity, in an age that was unprepared for it, was paid by the people of Lancashire. In Lancashire's "dark, satanic mills" children labored twelve hours a day, women grew old at 30. Religion was their chief succor. The Methodist revival...
...improvement in the composers' technique is the more careful weaving of sings into book. "There Once was a Man" and "Steam Heat" were show-stoppers no one would quarrel with, but they could claim no relevance to the pajama industry. Damn Yankees has a tight unity in all departments, the songs contribute to the action, and the action is weirdly plausible and even exciting. From "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant," you may know the plot A middle-aged baseball fan sells his soul to the devil in order to become a young sports hero and rescues the Washington...
...Marie Ampére (1775-1836) worked out many of the laws of electromagnetism; Italian Physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) is famous chiefly for inventing the "Voltaic pile," a primitive electric battery; Scottish Engineer James Watt (1736-1819) had little to do with electricity, but he designed the effective steam engine that would generate electricity when generators were invented...
...from the Government's General Accounting Office. GAO's new boss, Comptroller General Joseph Campbell, who voted for the contract as a member of the AEC, has advised the commission to hold it up. He wants ironclad assurances from Ebasco Services Inc., slated to build the big steam plant at West Memphis, Ark., that construction will not cost more than the $104 million estimate. What worries Campbell is a previous Ebasco contract for a steam plant at Joppa, Ill. to supply the AEC. There costs turned put to be $51 million more than estimated...