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...history." He said that the party would resume full-scale political activity, call a national convention, issue a manifesto for the first time since 1950, and run candidates for Congress next year. However, with hollow coffers and a membership estimated at less than 10,000, down from an alltime peak of 80,000 in 1944, the party is too feeble to make meaningful use of its reprieve...
...sources. At 5:18, the 300,000-kw. 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...
...worst potential hazard was in the air, where at peak hours, between 5 and 9 p.m., some 200 planes from all over the world home in on New York's Kennedy International Airport. American Airlines' Flight 6, four hours and 25 minutes out of Los Angeles with 80 passengers aboard, was only two miles from touchdown when the runway lights dimmed and disappeared. Turning toward the ocean, Captain Gus Konz lost radio contact with the tower, which by that time was operating on fast-fading emergency power. Unable to contact Kennedy, Konz pointed the nose...
...Chief Economic Adviser Gardner Ackley that the aluminum industry's profits were high and that any price rise would be unjustified, he set out to force back the 10 price rise to 25? per Ib.-which still left the metal selling for 1? per Ib. below its 1960 peak...
This new passion for selective giving reached a peak last month when New York's Episcopal Bishop Horace Donegan, at a ceremony marking his 15th year as head of the diocese, announced that a parishioner had stricken from his will a pledge of $600,000 toward completion of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.* Although he named no names, Donegan said that two other rich benefactors were threatening to withdraw bequests much larger than that. The purpose of withholding the money, said Donegan, was to show disapproval of his stand on civil rights-including speeches, sending priests...