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...hilarious pair, Geraldine and the Rev. Leroy, are one and the same-Clerow ("Flip") Wilson, 36, America's fastest-rising comedian, black or white. Not so long ago, Flip was scratching something like $15 a night out of low-rent nightclubs along the Eastern seaboard. Then he made a one-night stand on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. The stocky, moon-faced comic became-quite literally-a star overnight. Now his own NBC-TV variety hour, The Flip Wilson Show, is the most successful new hour in an otherwise dismal fall season...
...much of the week the Northeastern seaboard flickered close to a massive power failure. The halls of office buildings, their lights dimmed to conserve electricity, were restfully muted, without their usual operating-room fluorescence. That was the best to be said for it. As power companies imposed "dimouts"-cutting their output of voltage as much as 8%-air conditioners labored and sometimes failed...
...Seaboard from New York to Alabama, plus Chicago, St. Louis and Minneapolis-St. Paul, might expect brownouts this summer...
According to the U.S. Office of Emergency Preparedness, much of the nation faces a shortage of electricity this summer. Power failures may afflict Chicago, St. Louis and Minneapolis-St. Paul, plus most of the Eastern Seaboard from New York to Georgia. All these areas can expect regular "brownouts"-voltage reductions that dim lights, slow the whir of air conditioners to a whisper and obscure TV pictures with blizzards of snow...
However, Cahalan failed to repeat as the Eastern Seaboard 50-free champion...