Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lines. The first hint that the Northeast's huge CANUSE (for Canadian-U.S. Eastern interconnection) power grid was in trouble came at 5:16 p.m. Moving clockwise, millions of kilowatts of electricity were coursing through the vast network of cables to meet the early-evening needs of the Western Hemisphere's most heavily populated, most power-dependent region. In the humming central control room of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission, ink pens tracing the flow of power suddenly shuddered. At the Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. on the other side of Lake Ontario, the dials on a wall lurched...
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...
...across the Middle East. Last week in Iraq, reversing a virtually uninterrupted forced march to extreme socialism and dictatorship that began in 1958, Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz suggested Baghdad's sweeping nationalization laws had gone too far, declared it was time for a turn to private industry and Western foreign in vestments. Moreover, guaranteeing in dividual rights in a fashion unheard of in modern Iraq, Bazzaz, the quiet, Western-oriented technician whom President Abdul Salem Aref installed two months ago, decreed that henceforth no Iraqi citizen may be arrested without a warrant signed personally by himself or two other...
Mohieddin has jailed dozens of Communists, reopened negotiations with Washington to get U.S. food shipments started again, hired pro-Western Mahmoud Younis, director of the Suez Canal, to reorganize Egypt's creaking transport and communications. Last week Cairo even announced that it hoped to infuse some new capitalist life into the long-moribund Cairo Stock Exchange, and declared Port Said a duty-free zone...
Betrayal. The Arab swing from the left is dictated by the hard facts of economic life: the need for Western aid, investment and know-how, the failure of extreme socialism to salvage the hemorrhaging economies of Egypt and Iraq. Algeria, too, under Colonel Houari Boumedienne, has retreated from deposed Strongman Ben Bella's far-left bent. And when Ben Bella went, Nasser lost his only real revolutionary pal in the Arab world...