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Charles F. Luce-Under Secretary of the Interior in the Johnson administration and now Chairman of the Board of Consolidated Edison of New York-and Daniel W. Lufkin also spoke. Lufkin is a member of the President's Environmental Council...
...three speakers were critical of industry's past neglect of the environment, but they agreed that it is now changing its policies. "The important thing is that industry is paying more attention than it did five and ten years ago," Luce said "The trend is altogether in the right direction...
...main business of journalism, Henry Robinson Luce once said, "is with the phenomenon, the event, the concrete, here and now . . . But unless we pay attention to the great truths, new and old, we will not do justice to reporting the phenomena." Perhaps more than any journalist of his generation, Harry Luce-who died three years ago last week at the age of 68-was a man in love with ideas. He was not a prophet or philosopher but an editor and publisher constantly engaged with the temporal problems of current journalism. But as longtime LIFE Editor John K. Jessup notes...
...themes that preoccupied Luce were varied: the need for an aristocracy (of worth, not wealth), the providential course of U.S. history, the civilizing viability of Christian thought, the duty and responsibility of the U.S. in "the American Century." Luce's occasionally forensic manner and his brand of intellectual passion are rarely found today. But the questions he asked-and many of his answers-are still pertinent to the country he loved with an unabashi patriotism. Herewith a limited sampling of Editor Luce's thoughts, drawn from the Jessup volume...
...plunged the Northeast into stygian blackness. Last month disaster loomed again when the million-kilowatt generator at Con Ed's Ravenswood plant short-circuited. Since two smaller generators were temporarily out of order, New York suffered a "brownout" that dimmed lights and made air conditioners wheeze. Last week Luce sighed with relief when "Big Allis" (named for the Allis-Chalmers generator) came back on the line. But relief can only be temporary for Con Ed. It must currently generate 7,350,000 kw. at peak load, and 10.9 million within a decade. Even when it buys power from other...