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From Hackensack to Pottstown, Lock Haven to Dover, the power lines went dead for up to nine daylight hours throughout a 15,000-sq.-mi. chunk of the East. More than 13 million people, living in three-quarters of New Jersey, much of eastern Pennsylvania, eastern Maryland and northern Delaware, were caught last week in the nation's second great power failure...
...failure crippled nearly one-third of the 48,000-sq.-mi. area served by the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection, a power grid serving those three states plus Delaware, Virginia and Washington, D.C. It began in southeastern Pennsylvania, when a 230,000-volt power line abruptly surged with 606,000 kilowatts. The overloaded line heated up and cross-circuited with a low-voltage line. The Philadelphia Electric Co. had twice warned system dispatchers to anticipate a heavy load and split it between two lines, but the orders, for some reason, were disregarded. The short circuit automatically shut down Philadelphia Electric...
...spared when automatic relays opened to cut it off from the interconnection. That stroke-and the fact that it was a bright, clear day-saved the area from the near catastrophe that engulfed it on the night of Nov. 9, 1965, when 30 million people, over 80,000 sq. mi., spent up to twelve frantic hours in the dark...
...hostile environments that have challenged the fortitude of man, few have proved so obdurately unconquerable as one that he created for himself - the 23 sq. mi. of Manhattan. In the past two years alone, the metropolis has undergone ordeal by blackout, smog, race riot, drought, blizzard, transit strike and about every other affliction that can visit a city. Last week 250,-000 long-suffering Manhattanites were subjected to a new kind of hazard: trial by garbage and stairway. As usual, they responded with inventiveness, insouciance...
...return to Zion became a reality in the first Jewish state in almost 2,000 years, Levi Eshkol and his people found themselves besieged and threatened as few nations have ever been in their history. Tiny, dagger-shaped Israel, whose 2,700,000 people cling to 7,993 sq. mi. on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, faced the implacable hostility and cocked guns of 14 Arab nations and their 110 million people. Its borders were ringed with Arab troops on all sides; its important sea access through the Gulf of Aqaba remained blocked by Egyptian mines and patrol boats...