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...when the lights came on again half an hour or so later, there was no American nonsense about what had happened. The chief operations engineer for Britain's Central Electricity Board simply announced that he had pulled the plug. It was the peak power period, he explained, and the chilly inhabitants of England and Wales had turned on a lot more electricity (32,000 megawatts) than the state-owned power stations could produce (29,000 megawatts). The foul-up was due "partly to the weather and partly because we are rather behind on an annual overhaul...
...Commentator Cliff Michelmore appeared "on behalf of the electrical industry" to report that the blackouts were not "anything like the disgraceful failure of the electric supply in New York last week. Ours were on purpose." As if to prove him right, the Electricity Board's engineer pulled the plug again the next night...
...bang of a blown-out spark plug or the crunch of a bent fender makes the U.S. motorist fume, but it is music to Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. As a leader in the U.S.'s $7 billion-a-year market for auto parts, G. & W. lives on breakdowns and damage. It lives well: since 1958, it has multiplied its annual sales 22-fold to $175 million, acquired 57 companies that make products as diverse as guitars, jet-engine parts and survival equipment for spacemen. Last week, in its most ambitious diversification, G. & W. made a deal to merge with...
...brain, two of them in the thalamus itself. The electrodes are left in place and cause no pain in the insensitive brain. The little wounds where their connecting wires pass through the skull soon heal, and connections to the ''pain box" are readily attached through a permanent plug on the scalp...
...Department of Mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, finally proved the counterclockwise movement for the Northern Hemisphere by constructing a perfectly symmetrical tub filling it with with a clockwise swirl, then letting it sit for 24 hours in still air. After that, he carefully pulled the plug and filmed the results. Using Shapiro's technique, five persistent investigators at the University of Sydney have now duplicated his experiment, demonstrating that Down Under water will drain clockwise. To be sure they report in the magazine Nature, they cannot conclusively prove that it was the earth, not the swirl...