Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...utility-company employee. What is clear is that most of CANUSE's members were not able to quarantine themselves fast enough to save their own systems. Some utilities' officials argue that total quarantine is impossible, given 1) the obligations of a member to come to the aid of its pool, and 2) the speed at which a cascade travels. Nonetheless, Maine was the only New England state completely unaffected by the blackout. It was able to cut off its single, 115-kilovolt line to CANUSE in time. The Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland system escaped because its seven connections to CANUSE...
...Airlines' Flight 6, four hours and 25 minutes out of Los Angeles with 80 passengers aboard, was only two miles from touchdown when the runway lights dimmed and disappeared. Turning toward the ocean, Captain Gus Konz lost radio contact with the tower, which by that time was operating on fast-fading emergency power. Unable to contact Kennedy, Konz pointed the nose of the 248,000-lb. plane westward and minutes later set down at Newark Airport...
...long run, the Army has more than doubled its procurement of UH-1B (Huey) and CH-47A (Chinook) helicopters, and is trebling the number of new helicopter pilots it turns out-from 95 a month to 290 by early next year. The Pentagon has also authorized development of a fast new armed helicopter, the first designed exclusively as a weapons ship...
...have given it a unique wing design. Unless the pilot flies it by the book, he can misjudge his rate of descent, fall short of the runway. One possibility that federal detectives plan to investigate is that the airlines have given inadequate training to pilots assigned to fly the fast-selling plane...
Brown won the game early by keeping the ball out of the mud. The Bruin backs slammed long bombs deep into Harvard territory where their fast linemen picked up the ball and took quick shots. They built up a 5-0 lead by the middle of the second quarter, then coasted the rest...