As Research Officer Herbert Kinney of the Atomic Energy Commission drove down the gaily decorated main street of Haverhill, Mass., not long ago an uneasy thought struck him. "I have a terrible feeling," he said to an aide "that all these flags are for us."
They were—and so was a lunch with 400 civic boosters. Their aim: to make Haverhill the site of a $375 million AEC atom-smashing accelerator and so gain 2,000 new jobs, 10,000 new residents and a $16 million-a-year payroll. Haverhill, one among 148 locations considered by AEC, is...
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