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...Even with this chastening experience, Schlesinger might still be accused of a tendency to tidy things up. His basic view of his and Kennedy's thousand days was the clash between the New Frontiersmen in the White House and the torpid bureaucracies. "The Presidential government, coming to Washington aglow with new ideas and a euphoric sense that it could not go wrong, promptly collided with the feudal barons of the permanent government, entrenched in their domains and fortified by their sense of proprietorship." The result, he said, was that the permanent government "began almost to function as a resistance...
...uses for jet engines (including shipboard power, heating plants and railroad trains), are eagerly exploiting the power market. The jets' value has become obvious: Holyoke, Mass., switched on its Pratt & Whitney stand-by jet when the blackout hit, two minutes later had full power. Hartford, Conn., also stayed aglow with emergency jet power. A week after the blackout, New Jersey's Public Service Electric & Gas Co. began using an eight-jet system that provides 121,000 kw. for peak loads and emergency power...
...Vermont, with nearly 30 individual utility companies, withstood the tide. New Hampshire went black in only two heavily populated western sections. The Lake Placid, N.Y., resort area was saved by the grandiloquently named Paul Smith's Electric Light & Power & Railroad Co. A local generator kept New Haven, Conn., aglow. Such isolated Massachusetts communities as Holyoke, Braintree and Taunton never lost a watt, and windswept Nantucket Island, 30 miles off Cape Cod, kept going with a private power system installed...
RiMSKY-KORSAKOV: SCHEHERAZADE (London). The music is properly aglow with Oriental romance, as one would expect from Leopold Stokowski and the London Symphony, but the news lies in the sound...
...other new art, their art is clean, almost scrubbed raw. Without resorting to optical ping-pong, they soak pure peacock color into huge, unprimed, raw canvas. With all the flamboyant color that today's plastic paints can provide, their works please some as wall hangings, avant-garde tapestries aglow with unconventional color combinations and quite uncomplicated by symbolism...