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...Orange Scintilla. A few pinpoints of light shone through the all-enveloping shroud. Many areas of Vermont, with nearly 30 individual utility companies, withstood the tide. New Hampshire went black in only two heavily populated western sections. The Lake Placid, N.Y., resort area was saved by the grandiloquently named Paul Smith's Electric Light & Power & Railroad Co. A local generator kept New Haven, Conn., aglow. Such isolated Massachusetts communities as Holyoke, Braintree and Taunton never lost a watt, and windswept Nantucket Island, 30 miles off Cape Cod, kept going with a private power system installed...
...influx reversed; in seconds, 1.5 million kw. were surging northward, draining the city at its moment of peak demand. Before Nellis could halt the outflow by cutting Con Ed off from CANUSE, lights began flickering all over the city until only a scintilla of orange glowed from each bulb. For an instant, the lights surged on again; and then, like a theater at curtain time, New York sank into darkness...
...Your story did not contain even a scintilla on North Carolina's historic and famed Outer Banks, to wit, Cape Hatteras, Kitty Hawk (Wright Brothers), Roanoke Island (site of the first English colonization), and Ocracoke (last of the Eastern frontiers). This enchanting area is not reserved for the affluent society, but is a haven for all who appreciate adventure and solitude...
...that Stratton was preparing for his inauguration. Clerks from several women's stores testified that Mrs. Stratton and Stratton's two grown daughters made cash purchases totaling thousands of dollars, mostly for dresses, shoes and undergarments. When a defense attorney objected that "there is not a scintilla of evidence as to their use," Judge Will said gently: "Do you mean you don't know what a brassière is for?" As for the dresses, including a $383 red satin inaugural-ball gown introduced into evidence, the defense solemnly reminded the jury: "Shirley Stratton was the First...
Everybody Planning. All the fertilizer in the world will not solve the fundamental dilemma of Soviet agriculture: the nature of the peasant. No incentives yet devised have ever persuaded him to devote to impersonal toil a scintilla of the love and labor he lavishes on the minute patch of land he can still call his own. From privately owned plots, amounting to a bare 3% of all cultivated land in Russia, comes half of all the nation's meat, milk, green vegetables. But the bureaucracy adamantly refuses to expand the private plots...