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Electrical companies can build on this scale because they are pooling more power over longer interconnecting lines. At the same time, the AEC has encouraged experimentation on reactors that would be bigger and better than current ones that use water to transfer their heat. General Dynamics is working on a reactor that transfers its heat by gases; North American Aviation is experimenting with a sodium-graphite reactor; Babcock & Wilcox is developing a heavy-water reactor...
...Murchisons in 1961 had won support of uncommitted Alleghany shareholders by promising to get stodgy Alleghany moving again. In control, they concentrated instead on trying to recapitalize Investors Diversified Services. Kirby frustrated the recapitalization plan in court, arguing that it would transfer direct and personal control of I.D.S. from Alleghany to the Murchisons, who are big I.D.S. investors...
...keeps. After discovering, producing, and directing A Taste of Honey, The Quare Fellow, The Hostage, etc., at her small Theatre Royal in London's lower-class East End, she quit because the commercial theaters of the West End kept drawing away her actors and, worse, forcing her to transfer her productions into longrun, big-time houses in order to survive financially. She is a purist who would like to work for a purist audience rather than for people "whose only thought is whether their tiaras are on straight." She believes in short runs and unending experiment. It takes...
Casting the Blame. In the Buddhist faith, self-sacrifice is often undertaken to transfer the suffering of others to oneself. The martyr is usually considered a holy man so close to nirvana that he is unaffected by pain. Quang Due's premeditated act was a demonstration of Buddhist determination to force South Viet Nam's Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem to knuckle under to demands for increased religious freedom (TIME, June 14). In a will written "before closing my eyes to Buddha," Quang Due said: "I have the honor of presenting my words to President Diem, asking...
...large groups of executives to Berlitz to determine which ones can learn Spanish fastest, later selects some of them for assignment to Venezuela. Corporation wives are almost always included in the various courses; companies have found that wives who are left speechless abroad soon start clamoring for a costly transfer back home...