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Despite these important new proposals, the heat in the Senate was generated by the shopworn issue of public v. private steam plants. Last month President Eisenhower ordered the AEC to contract with private companies for electricity, which it will be needing beyond the amount already being supplied by the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...said it could supply cheaper power by building new steam plants with Government money. The Administration held that even if TVA could do the job more cheaply, the Government should stay out of the steam-plant business as much as possible. Led by Senators from the TVA area, e.g., Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore and Alabama Democrat Lister Hill, public-power enthusiasts, mostly Democrats, sided with the TVA. They decided to fight for a rider on the AEC bill that would block the Eisenhower order...
...tenth day of debate on its Atomic Energy Commission bill, Speaker Joseph W. Martin brought the House bill to the floor under a rule limiting discussion to four hours, plus a short time for each proposed amendment. But the fight over public v. private power worked up more steam than even Joe Martin had bargained...
...people, 70% Moslem, are vigorous and nationalistic. In trying to rule them, the Communists have involved themselves in a succession of purges and intramural rivalries. Last week a long-simmering feud between Albania's Premier Enver Hoxha and its Red police chief boiled up anew. When the steam lifted, handsome Hoxha was out and Colonel General Mehmet Shehu, hard-boiled army chief of staff and Minister of Interior, was in as Premier of Albania. Hoxha apparently still hung on to his job as head of the Albanian Communist Party...
...hits. But last week, no fewer than three tunes from The Pajama Game, Broadway's brightest musical of the season, were tweaking jukebox and disk-jockey fancies: a slinky, satirical tango called Hernando's Hideaway was high on the bestseller record lists, a rowdy novelty called Steam Heat was also on the lists, and the show's big ballad, Hey There, suddenly showed signs of becoming...