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...there's one thing you can't fault the people at Consolidated Edison for, it's their optimism. The giant New York electric utility has been attempting for more than ten years to build a pumped storage power plant at the foot of picturesque Storm King Mountain on the Hudson River, and for more than ten years they've been delayed by environmentalists in and out of the courts...
...Glide Foundation has proposed resolutions to Southern California Edison, asking it to disclose its affirmative action plans and the employment information it has filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the last three years...
Tufts was the only college in the Boston area to undergo such substantial rescheduling, being heavily dependent on Texaco white fuel which was cut by 25 to 30 per cent during the winter months. The Tufts Medical School, which receives steam heat from Boston Edison, remained open...
That is not to say that parapsychology ought to be excluded from serious scrutiny. Some first-rate minds have been attracted to it: Freud, Einstein, Jung, Edison. The paranormal may exist, against logic, against reason, against present evidence and beyond the standard criteria of empirical proof. Perhaps there are reasons why the roll of the dice and turn of the cards sometimes appear to obey the bettor's will. Perhaps the laws of probability are often suspended. Perhaps Geller and other magicians can indeed force metal to bend merely because they will it. Perhaps photographs can be projected...
Many businessmen do not doubt that the energy shortage is real and acute. Officials of Consolidated Edison put the New York City area on a round-the-clock 5% voltage cutback because the company had only a 9½-day stock of fuel left; that supply was dwindling steadily, and late last week FEO officials agreed to help Con Ed increase its reserves to a twelve-day supply. Airlines were also running short of fuel. Figuring that conventional sources of energy will remain scarce and costly, executives of RCA announced in Manhattan a major investment in solar energy. Next year...