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...have enough men or machines to dig out. The Big Board went on short trading hours early in 1968, and has still not bounced back to a full trading week. In a similar way, demand for electricity has shocked power-company executives. Managers of New York's Con Edison decided some time ago that a 21% reserve capacity would be enough to give the customers what they need. The managers were wrong. They had to ask customers to turn off air conditioning in some of New York City's biggest buildings on the hottest days of last summer...
Font, a 1968 graduate of West Point, said he began to doubt the morality of the war in his senior year. During his years in Cambridge, he said, he became more and more concerned with the con...
...bill becomes law any Massachusetts citizen who is ?? to serve in a combat zone could serve notice to the state attorney general. The attorney general would then be able to appeal the order to the U.S. Supreme Court, ?? a decision on the con-?? of the President's action in Southeast Asia without a Declaration of War by Congress...
...Manhattan, the black door with its heavy brass plate proclaims "Scanlan's Literary House." Upstairs, in a garish former banquet hall, the scene is even more bizarre: a dozen cluttered desks and typewriters, one freelance writer demanding payment, a payrolled private investigator deep in conversation with an ex-con contributing editor. At center stage, ex-Ramparts Editor and Raconteur Warren Hinckle III and former New York Times Reporter Sidney Zion celebrate their unlikely accomplishment: Seaman's Monthly is born...
...waterways. Congress has already authorized about $1 billion in funding for pollution control in this fiscal year alone. In addition, U.S. companies in 1969 invested an estimated $1.5 billion -up 40% for the year-to control the air and water pollution they create. New York City's Con Edison, for example, has spent $60 million in the last decade on equipment such as a $10 million precipitator to curb smoke pollution...