Word: electricians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appears that Harvard may already be footing the bill, at least on some streets. "As far as I know, Harvard pays for it all. They pay a bill for the lighting every month to Cambridge Light and Electric," William Crocker, city electrician, said yesterday...
...thoroughly studying the cause of the malfunctions, the engineer maintained, the plant "went commercial too quickly." The multiple problems should have been a warning, he said. "If the lights in your house blow out every time you turn on your toaster, you know something is wrong. You call the electrician." Questioned about the engineer's statements, Harold Denton, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's operations chief, said there were enough qualified personnel in the control room to meet federal requirements...
FIFA's insistence on color is understandable. El Mundial-'The Global," as this competition was called-really is a world cup. A young Italian electrician working in South Africa saw the '74 Cup final on television, resolved to see the next final in person, and last week, well pleased with his bargain, had spent four years of savings on a month of soccer. It is a safe bet that some fans some where watching Sunday's game were making the same daft but splendid decision. And it is an even safer bet that kids everywhere, especially...
...next day the electrician and the mother--as well as other townspeople--try to tell their neighbors about the amazing occurence. Naturally, no one believes them, and all they can offer as proof is a slight sunburn induced by the rays from the spaceships...
Back in Muncie, the electrician, the mother and the five-year-old boy are having problems. The boy has been kidnapped by the aliens, the mother is told by all her friends that her son probably fell in the river, and the electrician's wife has loaded the kids in the station wagon and gone to stay with her sister. In their mutual despair, the mother and the electrician find each other. Somehow, they know that the government is pulling everybody's leg about the toxic gases, and so they head off to Wyoming...