Word: norths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chairman Joseph M. Hendrie had gloomily warned that the shutdowns would have a "profound importance for our power supply." For one thing, the utilities that own the B & W reactors would be forced to buy electricity elsewhere for their customers. That would be costly. William Lee, chief executive of North Carolina's Duke Power Co., estimated that the cost of such a shutdown would run more than $100 million a month. But, under the compromise, these forecasts seemed somewhat alarmist...
...view that Cambodia was a minor adjunct to the Viet Nam War and that the strategy of the larger war justified spreading the fighting into a neutral land. President Nixon expressed that view when he said in December of 1970: "The Cambodians . . . are tying down 40,000 North Vietnamese regulars. If those North Vietnamese weren't in Cambodia, they'd be over [in Viet Nam] killing Americans...
...denied any wrongdoing. It insisted that a steady effort had been made since 1954 to change the school-district boundaries and close rundown, largely black schools. Moreover, the board maintained, Johnson was receiving a quality education. But after years of wrangling, the board's guarantors, Insurance Co. of North America, last December offered a settlement to Johnson. Explains I.N.A. Attorney Eugene Ralston: "The basic reason for settling was the enormous expense involved in the litigation. An in ordinate amount of time would have been involved in trying the case, and an appeal would have been likely." To avoid encouraging...
...Whose founder and only candidate, Columnist Auberon Waugh, is running against Liberal M.P. Jeremy Thorpe in his North Devon constituency. Thorpe's trial, on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder a man who claimed to be the M.P.'s lover, has been postponed until after the election...
After playing impressively down South. Crimson bats turned cold up north--the bottom third of the lineup simply died, and the only two consistent batters, Mark Bingham and Mike Stenhouse, had trouble hitting the long ball. By the time the entire lineup came alive collectively two weeks ago, though, the pitching staff had long since lost its early-season edge. Even the diamond god Brown turned out to be mortal...