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...Edison is the once imperious power utility that New Yorkers used to call "the company you love to hate." Now it is so beset that even Karl Marx might shed crocodile tears. Crippled by failing machinery, blocked by conservationists in its plans to build allegedly dangerous nuclear power plants, Con Ed can barely meet the city's ever rising power demands...
Last summer the company staged several voltage-cutting "brownouts." Girding for another nervous summer, Con Ed Chairman Charles F. Luce last week rejected the notion that troubled companies need more business. Luce has dropped all Con Ed sales promotion, which had boosted the percentage of new electrically heated housing units in the New York area from 5% to 30%. Con Ed will continue to spend about $1,000,000 a year for advertising-but it will use some of that money to urge New Yorkers to use as little electricity as possible...
...hope to provide something constructive instead of what happened last time," Hengen said. "We are strongly convinced of the right of YAF to stage such an event but we cannot allow them to portray the Harvard community to the outside world as in any way con-doning the policies of these speakers," he said...
...attorneys, Phil Hirschkopf and Ray Twohig, came to advise us: "The main problem will be the loss of communication... if you want to stay in jail, don't take in more than ten dollars-that's what collateral will probably be... the greatest con men in the world are the con men in prison, so don't take in anything you don't want to lose . . . you minister types will have to resist the temptation to try to convert everyone... drink plenty of liquids, or they may give you intravenous feeding... women, expect a vaginal inspection...
...typical day begins with lobbying at 8 p.m., includes at least one long march, and ends with beer and folksinging until past midnight. The cold weather has not made camping any easier. Without exception, however, the vets have shunned all offers for shelter in Con-gressional offices and private homes...