Word: grids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Private power companies also lack the means for making major changes in the grid, according to Harold Atkinson, vice-president and general manager of the Cambridge Electric Light Co. "If there was another failure, we could restore service an hour earlier than we did last Tuesday," Atkinson said yesterday. "But this is about the extent of what we can do by ourselves...
Joseph C. Swidler, chairman of the Federal Power Commission, said yesterday that the FPC has no authority to make major changes in the electric grid whose failure plunged the Northeast into darkness last week...
...about 5 p.m. two high-power lines, perhaps in the Rochester-Syracuse area, faulted simultaneously. Generators in surrounding areas, all linked in the same power grid, automatically tried to supply the missing electricity...
...late as 1950, Israelis relied on wells, rain tanks and collection systems. When there was no rain, they could only pray. Now Israelis have drawn up a master plan, nationalized all water, instituted strict rationing, tapped the Sea of Galilee, and laid out a grid of modern wells, reservoirs and pipelines. So well managed is the country's water supply that nearly 90% of all possible sources are being used-and 98% of all Israelis have running water...
...count Clark's losses than his victories. In 1963, he lost Monaco altogether (frozen gearbox while leading by 10 sec.), had to settle for a second in the German Grand Prix (seven cylinders instead of eight) and a third in the U.S. (dead battery on the starting grid). But he won in The Netherlands with the wrong tires and in France with a rough engine, steered to victory in Belgium with one hand, using the other to hold his slipping shift lever safely in fifth. All told, Jim won seven Grand Prix, equalling Alberto Ascari's 13-year...