Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...challenge those few critics who still differentiate between "literary" and "journalistic" writing to read your Nov. 19 cover story on the big blackout. It's poetic. SISTER MARY ROSELYN, R.S.M. Department of English Mercy College Detroit...
...After reading your cover story on the biggest blackout, I, too, feel as if I had spent "that" night in New York...
...After hearing stories of crime, indifference, riots and violence in our largest city, the nation is grateful to read about the general response of the citizens of New York during the great blackout. New Yorkers as a whole have redeemed their city from the impression, created by a few, that they couldn't care less when hoods attack people while their neighbors ignore their cries for help...
...TIME almost always succeeds in reporting events in correct terminology. But your story on the electrical blackout contained a bit of faulty terminology. You said that "the power output surged from 1,500 mega volts to 2,250." Power output is measured in watts or megawatts (millions of watts), not in megavolts. And anyone with a feel for electric power systems would immediately recognize 1,500 megavolts (1,500,000,000 volts) as an impossibly high voltage in any case. TIME was not alone in having this problem. Your account was more accurate from the standpoint of terminology and general...
...Blackout. Last week Kaunda's pleas for British troops carried a new urgency. A narrowly averted incident on the border with Rhodesia led him to pull his own small army back to Lusaka to avoid an accidental clash. In the rail center of Livingstone, the town's first race disturbance-a minor scuffle in which nobody was seriously hurt-caused 300 white railwaymen to strike for government protection, and the walkout crippled the nation's copper shipments. Three hundred miles to the north came the most serious incident of all: saboteurs blew up the main power line...