Word: eds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stacy, a popular, outgoing young woman who worked as a secretary for a shoe firm in the Empire State Building, was Son of Sam's sixth murder victim. Robert, a polite, conservatively dressed fellow who had just applied for a construction job with Con Ed, was the seventh person to survive bullet wounds in the killer's yearlong series of attacks...
...Federal Power Commission verbally electrocuted Con Edison last week for its failure to prevent the New York blackout of July 13 and to get the lights back on again quickly. In an interim report on the causes of the blackout, ordered by President Carter, the FPC accused Con Ed of "inability to provide reliable service." There were "obvious flaws" in the utility's system to begin with, said the agency. "The design of the transmission network and the protective devices designed to protect the system were inadequate." Then, said the FPC, when lightning bolts struck the system, Con Ed...
...utility reacted with the weary indignation of a battered old fighter who has been floored by another blind-side haymaker. President Arthur Hauspurg called the FPC'S statements "inaccurate," its conclusions "unsupported" and complained that 15 hours after the report had been "leaked" to the press Con Ed still did not have a copy. His main point: The events of July 13 "were so extraordinary that they went beyond the design and capability of the system." That comment, at least, was preferable to the initial explanation by a Con Ed spokesman, who attributed the blackout...
...cooperation by not smoking ... anything ... in the theater." Then, amidst the tumble effaces on the various screens, can be seen Marilyn Monroe, Doris Day, Peter Lawford, Marlon Brando and John F. Kennedy as President. The gloom of Kennedy's assassination breaks the mood, but not for long, as Ed Sullivan can be seen in 1964 announcing, with a wave of the arm: "Ladies and gentlemen...
...ventures beyond the bounds of propriety, Fern-wood-style. Gimble, played by Martin Mull, 33, is the best Lear character since Archie Bunker, and Hubbard (Fred Willard, 33), the dumber-than-dumb Edith Bunker of this most odd couple, is not far behind. Any comparison to Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon is, of course, purely intentional...