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...then, a silent avalanche of night had engulfed most of the Northeast. Cascading west, south and east from the Niagara Falls region, the electronic eclipse swept over an area only slightly smaller than Great Britain: 80,000 sq. mi., embracing parts of eight U.S. states and most of Canada's Ontario province. In 12 bewildering minutes?in less time than it would take an intercontinental missile to reach the U.S. from Russia?30 million people were plunged into blackness and bewilderment. And, in a society that has peered at the moon's hidden face and unlocked the secrets of matter...
...minute later, meters at the mammoth $737 million Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant?biggest in the hemisphere?also went wild. The power output surged from 1,500 megavolts to 2,250, then sank abruptly to zero. "The needle came clear off the paper!" exclaimed one engineer. "There were more squiggly lines than in an earthquake." Giant generators spun uncontrollably out of step, and overload switches sprang open...
Policy Consultant. But to Swope, the World was not enough. His energy was legend (an English observer called him a natural force second only to Niagara). He could not bear, he said, to be "a hired boy," and he resigned in 1929. By then, the World was approaching its end-which Swope helped to bring on. Sensation seekers came to feel the paper was too pretentiously intellectual, and defected to the tabloids. The intelligentsia found it lightweight, and defected to the Times and Herald Trib une. Swope had got out just in time...
They show that to a pioneering people the wilderness originally represented a hostile world to be tamed, tilled and harvested. What appealed first were "the sightes," hazardous gorges, natural rock arches, the torrents of the Niagara a scene naively and delightfully captured by the Quaker sign painter Edward Hicks. But with leisure there came a more open sky, sophisticated and view. "Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Nature's' teachings." Poet William Cullen Bryant exhorted the painters...
Visitors to Niagara Falls have reported garbage spilling over the brink. Gettysburg, Pa., has safeguarded much of the historic battlefield, but the surrounding area crawls with souvenir hawkers and motels. In the Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island remains one of the last areas where buffalo roam freely in the U.S.; now the state wants to use the island as an amusement area...