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Power lines travel into most cities from several directions, but all the major cables connecting Con Ed to other pools of electric power run in a single corridor from the north. Last week a storm apparently knocked out all eight of these lines within an hour. Says an executive of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: CAN IT HAPPEN ELSEWHERE? | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

So heavy is the concentration of communications operations in midtown Manhattan that the New York blackout had an impact that was immediately felt throughout the nation-and the world as well. All three networks transmit their signals from New York by air waves to relay towers and satellites-or by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: When the News Tickers Fell Silent | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

This spring Luscomb was one of the Seven Grand Bostonians Mayor Kevin H. White honored for their services to the City of Boston. At the black-tie, champagne reception this woman who has worked against the tide in most of the progressive movements of her times stood in a receiving...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: So you want a revolution? | 7/6/1977 | See Source »

County law enforcement has been lenient, with no major drug arrests for several years. Sheriff Reymundo Alvarez has only ten full-time deputies, five part-timers and one patrol car, which usually needs jumper cables to get it started, to cover 1,211 square miles. Four of the deputies cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Taming a Tough County | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

Freewheeling Style. The story is much the same in Latin America. From Rio, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand cables that Carter's concern with human rights at first prompted the Chilean and Argentine regimes to grant dissenters a bit more leeway. But in the past week "Argentina barred those held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Can Jimmy Carterize Foreign Policy? | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

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