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...Hallucination? Not at all. The source was the Albuquerque police department's "spy in the sky" plane on a routine patrol. "It scared the world out of us," the man said later. "It reminded us of George Orwell's 1984." The low-flying craft operates by daylight too. A woman complained that she could no longer sunbathe on her roof because the plane kept circling overhead...
When Congress imposed year-round Daylight Saving Time on the nation, the idea was to cut down on energy consumption. Whether that has actually happened is still being widely debated, but the shift to an earlier rising period has already had one disturbing result - the danger that school-bound youngsters face from predawn auto drivers. In Florida, eight children died in early morning traffic accidents after the time change took place early in January; there were two such deaths during the same period in 1973. "Daylight Saving Time in the winter," said one TV commentator, "has proven to be Daylight...
...Little children walking to school in the dark? No, mothers are driving them. This is saving energy? No matter how Congress legislates, there are only a limited number of hours of daylight. We on the western edge of a time zone are using more electricity to cope with the extra hour of morning darkness than we did with the hour of evening darkness...
...What is my reaction to Daylight Saving Time at this cold, dark season of the year? It is this: the Nixon Administration has not seen the light for so long that it thinks it fitting for the rest of the population to be in the dark at least part of the time...
...could mean fewer traffic accidents. He explained that accidents in the evening are often caused by the fact that at that time many drivers' reactions are slowed-some are tired out from the day's labor, others have had too many after-work cocktails. Driving home in daylight should help compensate for those factors. Indeed, motor-vehicle fatalities and serious accidents dropped 3.8% in Britain when that country was on year-round D.S.T. from October 1968 through October 1971. Some law-enforcement experts had suggested that the change might cut violent crimes, since they also peak...