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...building trades membership, have committed themselves to hiring blacks. The plan was held up until $524,500 in federal training funds came through last month. Within a week, 25 blacks were being trained, but not in highly paid unions like the electricians', plumbers' and steam fitters'. Arthur Fletcher, Assistant Secretary of Labor, sums up the situation: "Neither the Philadelphia Plan nor the various home-town plans have accomplished a darn thing...
...with a new national prominence, Meyer expanded his interests and moved full steam into the excesses and perversions of modern suburbia. In the new film everyone drives a Rolls Royce, wears well-coordinated clothes, and sits in livingrooms with impressive views. But along with Meyer's new ambience his characters have lost some of their old verve. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls lacks Meyer's notoriously tantalizing abandon. Disappointingly he has acquired serious pretentions...
...their stay. Youths slept in the sun on air mattresses, crawled at night into tents of orange, green, yellow and blue canvas. The more spiritual-minded jammed into an Indian meditation tent. Attitudes toward the music ban varied. "When you alienate so many people, the revolution just picks up steam," said Pat Coons, 23, a camper from Connecticut. Waving to friends on a ski T-bar, a California youth expressed the dominant mood: "This whole thing is playing it lazy-it's a place to pass a smooth couple of days." Nevertheless, in its final days, the festival turned...
...years since Thomas Alva Edison inaugurated the nation's first steam-electric power station in lower Manhattan, the U.S. has become extraordinarily dependent on electricity. Americans now take for granted the busy computers that click in offices, the lights that blaze all night in poultry farms, the sensitive machines that monitor patients in hospitals. The average U.S. household contains 16 electrical appliances. But the day may come when people casually flip a switch or lift a receiver-and nothing will happen...
...compound the problem, equipment manufacturers were held up by strikes and shortages of skilled labor. When the Federal Power Commission surveyed 85 large steam-generating units installed in 1966-68, it found that 55 had been delayed for one reason or another. As a result, lead time for getting a new fossil-fuel plant on the line has been lengthened from four to six years. Nuclear plants are now expected to take seven rather than five years...