Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...save their own systems. Some utilities' officials argue that total quarantine is impossible, given 1) the obligations of a member to come to the aid of its pool, and 2) the speed at which a cascade travels. Nonetheless, Maine was the only New England state completely unaffected by the blackout. It was able to cut off its single, 115-kilovolt line to CANUSE in time. The Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland system escaped because its seven connections to CANUSE blew in time. Con Edison had no automatic cutoff system that protected it in the emergency...
Thin on Research? Thus, the blackout may have proved a timely warning. "Think what one Russian with a pair of pliers could do," mused Northern Ontario Natural Gas Co. Chairman C. Spencer Clark. To others, it was a reminder that bigger systems may invite bigger blackouts, unless they are made more reliable. The suspicion among many was that the utilities, in their increasing reliance on pools to meet the ever-rising U.S. demand for power?it has doubled in every recent decade?have cut themselves thin on research and development that might have prevented last week's debacle...
...against the mindless obedience of the machines he has created but also against the capricious disobedience of the energy that he has enslaved. Most Americans were shocked by the number of airports, subways, commuter trains, hospitals and highways that lack auxiliary power systems. Without such elementary precautions, another massive blackout, say in midwinter, could prove far more calamitous than "a hell of a flick." As it was, for most of those who slogged through it, memories...
...Biggest Blackout would probably last the rest of their lives...
...many, the mood of New York evoked memories of wartime London, when Englishmen of all classes closed ranks before the common foe, the shared indignity. In the blackout, as in the blitz, no man was an island. A blanket on the ground, as Henry Moore recorded in his drawings of Londoners huddled in air-raid shelters, can be a great leveler. To complete the parallel, blacked-out U.S. cities were illumed by what Englishmen still remember as "a bomber's moon...