Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BEWITCHED (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Those unconvinced by official stories about what caused the great East Coast blackout last year now have an occult explanation in "The Short Happy Circuit of Aunt Clara...
...pain of disbarment or jail for contempt, the A.B.A. proposals would forbid police, prosecutors, defense lawyers and judicial employees to make any out-of-court statement on the accused's prior criminal record or make public other information that might influence the outcome of his trial. The blackout would cover the entire period from arrest to verdict-a period that sometimes lasts for years...
...Sinai Hospital. Health is Tolchin's regular Times beat, and he immediately noticed a lot of unusual hustle and bustle in the maternity ward. "I've never seen it like this before," said a passing nurse, and she ventured a reason: the great New York City power blackout had taken place nine months before, almost...
Fertile Crises. Tolchin himself refrained from musing over the possible effect of the full moon on the blackout night-or whether the illegitimate birth rate had also gone up as a result of the long night spent by some in offices. With the impeccable restraint of a good Timesman, Tolchin merely hinted that many Americans apparently require crisis nights to get interested in fertility rites; he found statistics showing that the national birth rate jumped markedly nine months after Pearl Harbor and after the outbreak of the Korean War. In any case, he added, sociologists had predicted all along that...
...University joins the rest of the Northeast and part of Canada in a four-hour blackout, during which the Faculty approves the CEP's Gen Ed program. Master Finley, admitting that he had been "a bit hasty" in judging the proposal, predicts that the old Gen Ed system "will be the tune, and this new business the obligatto," Harvard decides to install emergency generators...