December 31, 1957

Argonne Lab rapts it can produce cheapest electricity; Dr Spinrad says boiling water reactor produced 2 1/2 times more heat than it was designed for, making possible lowering of cost from 52 to 32 mills a kw-hr; need for new generating equipment noted; Oak Ridge 'homogeneous reactor experiment #2' goes 'critical,'

Illus

NEA plans office near Capitol to press for large-scare aid; Carr calls Adm program inadequate; hails Eisenhower, Folsom and Derthick efforts; Fuller calls Adm program inadequate; reaction of Sen O'Mahoney, NYS Comr Allen, various Congressmen

'58 internatl travel plans discussed; has flown 355,733 mi abroad as State Sec

J Reston on US, USSR agreement in principle on expanding exchs of information and cultural groups