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...first torment was New York City's power shortage, a constant worry since the great blackout of 1965. Predicted by the New York Public Service Commission last December, the new crisis became a fact in June. Within 24 days, Consolidated Edison not only announced that its big nuclear power plant at Indian Point would remain inoperative all summer, but also that its biggest single generator-"Big Allis," a million-kilowatt unit in Queens-had broken down and could not be repaired until December. These losses cut the utility's generating capacity by 17%. To provide new power...
...years since Thomas Alva Edison inaugurated the nation's first steam-electric power station in lower Manhattan, the U.S. has become extraordinarily dependent on electricity. Americans now take for granted the busy computers that click in offices, the lights that blaze all night in poultry farms, the sensitive machines that monitor patients in hospitals. The average U.S. household contains 16 electrical appliances. But the day may come when people casually flip a switch or lift a receiver-and nothing will happen...
Nuclear Disappointment. Despite the crisis in the New York area last week, some industry spokesmen still insist that the nation generally has ample power. The Edison Electric Institute, a national trade association, argues that the U.S. has an average 18.2% more generating capacity than it needs to supply peak summer demand. Western states in particular have a surplus of power. But other experts are less sanguine. Speaking before the American Power Conference last April, Carl E. Bagge, vice chairman of the Federal Power Commission, bluntly informed the electric industry that it confronts a "national crisis." Said he: "Minimizing this fact...
...Safety Act, which is aimed at stopping "black lung" disease among miners. There is also a shortage of cheap coal with a sufficiently low sulfur content to reduce air pollution. The cleanest fuel, natural gas, is so hard to come by that the Midwest's biggest buyer, Commonwealth Edison, has now begun to burn its winter stocks of coal to supply Chicago with power. Even domestic oil is getting more expensive, and there seems little chance of the Government's liberalizing the import quotas it imposes on foreign crude...
More than 60% of General Motors' new employees in recent years have come from "minority groups"?the euphemism embracing blacks, Spanish-speaking people, American Indians and Orientals. About 50% of Con Edison's new employees are blacks or Puerto Ricans. Con Ed's headquarters in Manhattan now rings with soul talk and rapid-fire Spanish. California's Bank of America has raised minority-group employment to 22% of its 35,000 U.S. payroll, double the proportion...