Word: grid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover combat in World War II, Woodward returned to the Trib as editor of the sports department. He hired writers of the caliber of Red Smith and horse racing Expert Joe Palmer. He purged his pages of what he called "unholy jargon," banishing such words as horsehide, pigskin, donnybrook, grid battles. When a reporter wrote that someone had "belted a home run," Woodward whipped off his own belt and shouted, "Here, let's see you hit a home run with this." Such was Woodward's pride in his shop that when the managing editor once suggested running...
...collapse of the Lake Ontario loop pulled to the rescue a massive 1,500,000 kw. from New York City plus power from New England members of CANUSE, the vast power grid serving northeastern America. Within minutes their systems also went dead...
Power experts were still at odds over ways of preventing a single malfunction from pulling down an entire grid. Though FPC Chairman Joseph Swidler was preparing a report for President Johnson, final recommendations will take more intensive studies. Meanwhile, there were signs that Congress will be asked to tighten FPC's police powers. Next week a special House Commerce subcommittee investigating the blackout will hold its first meeting in Washington...
Squiggly Lines. The first hint that the Northeast's huge CANUSE (for Canadian-U.S. Eastern interconnection) power grid was in trouble came at 5:16 p.m. Moving clockwise, millions of kilowatts of electricity were coursing through the vast network of cables to meet the early-evening needs of the Western Hemisphere's most heavily populated, most power-dependent region. In the humming central control room of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission, ink pens tracing the flow of power suddenly shuddered. At the Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. on the other side of Lake Ontario, the dials on a wall lurched...
Cambridge relies on circuit breakers elsewhere in the grid to protect it from a major power drain. Atkinson explained. "There could be more regulatory devices but they'd have to be planned for the whole system," he added...