Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breakdown did not come all at once-not like the cataclysmic nightfall that blacked out New York and most of the Northeast in 1965-but it was no less eerie. House lights went out; furnaces sputtered and cooled; auto traffic jammed up at darkened intersections. Dog races were canceled because the electric rabbits would no longer run. Factories shifted to a four-day week, then a three-day week, laying off 1.6 million employees. Only the most essential services operated full time-hospitals, water and sewage plants-and nobody knew how long they could continue...
Perhaps the most jarring postflight experience befell Armstrong's fellow moon walker, Buzz Aldrin. Unprepared for the hectic demands on his life (ticker-tape parades, speeches, world tours), Aldrin was on the way to "a good, old-fashioned American nervous breakdown," turned to psychiatric treatment, and resigned from NASA. Now writing his autobiography, to be called Return to Earth, he talks candidly about his illness. He has also become an ingratiating salesman on TV commercials...
...long last she may have found a script that fits her talents. In Play It As It Lays, a movie currently being adapted from Joan Didion's novel, Tuesday portrays Maria, an actress in search of a breakdown in the vast emptiness of Southern California. "She knows the role so well she could phone it in," says Director Frank Perry (Diary of a Mad Housewife). "I tested hundreds of girls for the part, but I always knew it had to be Tuesday...
...rail system from a threatened collapse. They do not seem to be crying wolf; the railroads' plight is bad enough to have won the sympathy of their chief competitors. Truck lines and many barge operators are backing one of the bills because they fear that a final breakdown of the U.S. rail network would force Congress to nationalize the system-and such a move would set an ominous precedent for the whole transportation industry...
...done so, although no firearms were found on any of the bodies. Lord Widgery also ruled that at least four of the victims had been shot "without justification." But he found no evidence of conspiracy to kill on the part of the British troops, and "no general breakdown" in discipline...