Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blackout at home, in restaurants and in theaters also began to interview people and record events. "Everyone had a very individual response," says Correspondent Eileen Shields, who covered police headquarters that night. "I was walking up the stairs to my apartment when the lights went out. I thought I was going to be mugged. Then I realized it was happening to everyone...
...crisis of light, and of darkness?the kind of event that brings out the best and the worst in people. Certainly the 1965 blackout could never happen again, or so New Yorkers had thought. But something very much like it struck Wednesday the 13th, only this time it was frighteningly different. Through the long, sweaty night and most of the following day, the nation's largest city was powerless, lacking both the electricity on which it depends so heavily and any means to stop a marauding minority of poor blacks and Hispanics who, in severe contrast to 1965, went...
...Elliott, in charge of keeping old jobs in the city and bringing in new ones, announced the blackout at least had not caused a group of oil suppliers from Houston and New Orleans to drop consideration of moving some of their offices to the city. But how many businessmen thought of moving out? How many will become more difficult to sell on moving in? At best, Elliott's job has been a holding action, and last week's crisis, he said with great understatement, "doesn't help...
Stores owned by blacks and Hispanics suffered the same fate as those operated by whites. In Brooklyn, the Fort Green cooperative supermarket?set up by low-income blacks after the 1968 riots?was stripped bare. The store had no steel window guards because, said Manager Clifford Thomas, "we thought we were part of the community. We were wrong...
...surprised at how quiet it is in the Yard these days. "I thought everyone would be partying, but it's real quiet," he said...