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...December 24, 1969, after public hearings, an FPC examiner ruled in favor of Con Ed. The full commission took up the matter last month, and will issue a decision in the fall...
...York conservation groups have been bitterly fighting the Con Ed plan since 1962, turning it into an ecological cause celebre known as the "Storm King Mountain controversy." In 1965, they temporarily halted the project through court fights, but the new Con Ed challenge is conceded a far greater chance of success...
...Federal Power Commission and the courts do grant Con Ed condemnation rights next fall, the power company will build five dikes on the Harvard land and pump water from a Hudson River reservoir into a valley in the forest...
...account is particularly important for its detailing of the personality of Charles Manson, the alienated ex-con who held apparently total psychic control over the female commune members. She explains how Manson first won her over (by his rendition of the song, "The Shadow of Your Smile"), how Manson saw homicide as a means of instilling "fear in Man himself, Man, the Establishment," how Manson set himself up as a combination of God and Satan, how Manson sought to set off a black versus white blood-bath, how Manson established male chauvinism as one of the commune's fundamental principles...
...devised by them has three times denied the country's highest office to the candidate receiving the greatest number of popular votes. Twice it has resulted in, and several times-most recently in 1968-it has threatened the chaos of a disputed election's being thrown to Con gress for resolution. Last year, in the wake of that recent near-fiasco, a pro posed constitutional amendment for direct election of the President was passed by the House of Representatives. Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee added its approval and sent the amendment to the floor for a debate...