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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another example of energy trouble and vulnerability, the Nuclear Energy Regulatory Commission ordered the immediate shutdown of five mid-Atlantic and New England nuclear power generators on the statistically improbable grounds that an earthquake might occur near by and cause them to pour out radioactive materials. U.S. oil consumption will quickly jump by 100,000 bbl. a day as the affected public utilities switch to increased production by oil-fired generators...
...Penn Relays and the Greater Boston Championships occur a day apart, late in April, in what should be an exhausting weekend. The Heptagonal meet takes place the first weekend in May. The squad will try to improve upon the fourth-place finish it gained in the winter version of the Heps...
...Globe, under the headline "Guatemalan Family Flees." The Boston Herald American didn't carry the story at all. After pressure from a state representative and a lawyer from the Civil Liberties Union, Mayor White issued a statement "deploring" violence and reminding protesters that "such incidents do not occur everyday...
...fact that such incidents do occur with such frequency is only one indication of the city's lack of diligence and sensitivity in dealing with racial turmoil. Further, no real improvement can take place unless the Mayor makes racial issues a high priority in his administration...
Riding on a lot of contacts, a line of credit and sheer gall, a troupe of about 300 international profiteers have become the principal beneficiaries of the galloping oil price increases that occur daily on the "spot market." They are the mysterious players in a loose old-boy network of private investors, former oil executives, foreign government officials, Arab sheiks and assorted middlemen, brokers and hustlers. "Many of them," says Joe Roeber, a London-based analyst of the spot market, "got out of trading used tires or razor blades or whatever else they were doing to start dealing...