Time debate runs off the rails as Cotton seeks daylight save fix
Washington columnist Dick West notes Senator Norris Cotton's bill to reform daylight saving time by shifting time zones, arguing the plan adds confusion. He mocks the concept with examples from Richmond, Bristol, and Fairfax County, concluding that moving the capital into a new time zone or sea would be impractical.
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UPI
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Norris Cotton
R-N.h
Senate
Cotton
Richmond
Virginia
Fairfax County
Bristol
Washington
Atlantic
Commie Catholic Feud Divides Italian Town
In Sasso Marconi Italy a priest Don Dario Zanini excommunicates Mayor Renato Giorgi and seven councillors over a zoning dispute. The quarrel pits the Roman Catholic Church against communism in a town split by land use plans that would convert church land into a parking lot and a green zone. The mayor defends his actions while the priest frames the issue as church rights versus local political resistance.
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William F. Sunderland
Sasso Marconi
Italy
Don Dario Zanini
Renato Giorgi
Giorgi
Don Dario
Bologna
Padua
Development Revealed At APC Session New Nuclear Fuel
Research scientists at an American Power Conference session described HTGR fuel from General Dynamics that could lift nuclear plant efficiency to 46 percent, cut electricity costs to about one mill per kilowatt hour, and enable longer fuel life. Prototype Peach Bottom plant in Pennsylvania illustrates high temperature steam at 1000 degrees F and 1450 psi, with burnups up to 100,000 megawatt days per ton and fuel lifetimes of five years or more.
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Chicago
UPS
Corwin L. Rickard
Robert A. Meyer
General Dynamics Corp
General Atomic Division
Meyer
General Atomic
Peach Bottom
Philadelphia Electric Co
HTGR
Girdle and Mumu Hide Woman's Middle-Age Spread
A humorous note suggests that two items of dress a girdle and a mumu can conceal a middle-age spread. The remark treats fashion as a playful solution to body changes and reflects mid century wit about women's attire.
McNamara Foresees U S Victory If Needed In Lifetime
Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara told Congress that Soviet power will not match the United States in our lifetime, asserting U S defenses are ready to fight and win if required. He cited Khrushchev’s actions as indicating Moscow knows Washington can destroy Soviet society from ground, sea, air or space.
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Congress
Russia
United States
McNamara
U.S
Senate Armed Services Committee
Nikita Khrushchev
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