Nuclear power rises as 1987 target and 35 percent share loom
The Atomic Industrial Forum reports 45 nuclear plants in operation by end of 1974, generating 8 percent of U.S. electricity and saving about $700 million on bills. Industry projects over 200 more plants and a 35 percent share by 1987, but safety and Price-Anderson Act renewal in 1977 remain contentious. Critics call the act inadequate and uninsurable risks persist, while supporters cite low accident claims and a government study estimating worst case risk at about once in a million years per 100 reactors.
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Atomic Industrial Forum
Joint Committee On Atomic Energy
Price-Anderson
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Milton Shapp as a national candidate draws baffled laughter
The piece criticizes Milton Shapp, Pennsylvania governor and potential 1976 presidential candidate, as lacking charisma and tainted by Harrisburg scandal. It notes investigations and unreported contributions, arguing Shapp is a local curiosity with little national appeal and represents political decay.
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Milton Shapp
South
Pennsylvania
Shapp
Harrisburg
Washington
New Jersey
Susquehanna
Main Street Versus New York City cartoon sparks budget fury
The Locher cartoon shows a massive vintage car labeled NEW YORK CITY at a filling station. It satirizes New York’s fiscal crisis and national resentment of city government, with observers from towns like Muncie and Kalamazoo arguing for fiscal reform and city downsizing to stop wasteful spending.
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Main Street
New York City
Locher
United States ‘Taxpayer Service
Fillt
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
New York
Wall Street Journal
Maint Street
Ford
Moburbia: Crackerbox Mobile Homes reshape Appalachia
Article warns moburbia as a national housing trend postwar, detailing mobile homes sold at 8 to 15 thousand dollars, financed at high rates, prone to fires and wind damage, with poor construction and weak warranties. It cites Center for Auto Safety findings and notes widespread parks near Knoxville with dense layouts and aesthetic decline.
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Knoxville
Ten
United States
Appalachia
America
Center For Auto Safety
Moburbia
California
Wheat deal sparks wary view of detente and grain trade
The piece critiques a five year Soviet grain petroleum exchange, noting U S grain concessions and limited oil gains. It questions motives behind detente diplomacy, warns of political risks, and urges congressional scrutiny of Kissinger led negotiations and executive power.
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Henry Kissinger
United States
Kissinger
House International Committee
Robinson
U.S
Congress
Bureaucratic Dependence Threatens American Self Reliance
Anthony Harrigan notes that as the bicentennial approaches Americans risk becoming dependent on a vast imperial bureaucracy. Pat Murphy of The Arizona Republic warns of government overreach into daily life, from transportation to pricing to schooling, risking a government "despite the people" and echoing fears of totalitarianism.
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James Blanchard
Pat Murphy
The
Arizona Republic
Phoenix
George Orwell
Soviet Russia
Nazi Germany
America
Murphy
Douglas and Glass in the Supreme Court ages crisis
A column critiques Justice William C. Douglas of Oregon and Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, noting illness and stubborn tenure. It contrasts Douglas’s civil liberties record with calls for resignation and a Cromwellian remedy, wishing for a determined wakeful replacement to end his prolonged service.
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Supreme Court
William C. Douglas
Oregon
U.S
Carter Glass
Virginia
Lynchburg
United States
Wilson
Federal Reserve System
United States Senate
Glass
Justice Douglas
High Court
Douglas
Oliver Cromwell
Cromwell
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Saoo
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Holmes Alexander
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