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The Experimental Breeder Reactor No. 1 at the National Reactor Testing Station, Arco, Idaho, has been in operation since 1951, generating a small amount of electricity and yielding information of great importance to public utility companies that plan to build giant power reactors of similar type. Last year the laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Undercover Accident | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

The juniors went further than this. They issued a statement to the public: "... Yielding to the suggestion of momentary passion, Mr. Quincy has formed a determination which no prudent man can approve, and which he pursues with an obstinacy which regards neither the dictates of reason nor of common sense...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: What Happened to the Rebellion Tree? | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

My recent proposal that the Students for Eisenhower join the Political Forum precipitated somewhat of a furor among a number of the members of the former organization. Several, yielding to the rule of emotion, promptly stated that if the proposal were passed they would resign. To these people I can...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HE'S FORUM | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

¶ Alarmed by reports that the Administration is yielding to pleas from Britain to ease East-West trade restrictions, the Senate's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee opened hearings on the current state of trade with the Communist bloc. In its line of questioning, the subcommittee made plain that its target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Work Done | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

Loosed from their contractual shackles during the great television scare, and thirsty for the taste of tax relief, a host of famous actors have saddled up their "horseback corporations" and gone storming after creative control of U.S. film production. They have won an amazing measure of it. Jimmy Stewart made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Conquest of Smiling Jim | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

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