Learn From Experience Better Power Grid Systems Are Needed
FPC chief Swidler told Congress isolated electric grids cannot avert wide scale outages. He urged stronger laws funding and staff to improve reliability across private, cooperative municipal and federal systems and called for unified regulation. He cited the Northeast blackout origin and learning from past failures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FPC
Washington
Federal Power Commission
Joseph C. Swidier
Congress
Northeast
Swidler
House
Interstate Commerce Subcommittee
Gemini 6 7 Rendezvous Effort Nears Nose-to-Nose Meet
Gemini 6 astronauts Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford pushed to close in on Gemini 7 high above the earth after a flawless Titan 2 liftoff from Cape Kennedy. Their plan included eight jet maneuvers to join Borman and Lovell in a six hour formation high over the Marianas with a possible return Thursday.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Walter Schirra
Thomas Stafford
Marianas Islands
Pacific
Gemini 7
Chris Kraft
Schirra
Stafford
Borman
Lovell
Cape
Gemini
Frank Borman
James A. Lovell Jr
Earth
Navy
Air Force
Economists differ on rate hike impact and Fed independence
Two economists from differing views questioned the harm of the Fed rate increase. John Kenneth Galbraith called the action improper and urged congressional oversight, while Henry Wallich supported the move as a brake to prevent an unsustainable expansion and defend Fed independence.
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Washington
U.S
Federal Reserve
John Kenneth Galbraith
Henry C. Wallich
Galbraith
Harvard
Congress
Wallich
Yale
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Council of Economic Advisors
Federal Reserve Board
McNamara Warns on Chinese Nuclear Threat to Europe
Defense Secretary McNamara told NATO ministers that China could stockpile nuclear weapons within two years and deploy intercontinental missiles by 1975. He warned the alliance to prepare for a possible Chinese nuclear strike from San Francisco to Berlin while U S forces stay poised in Western Europe and Vietnam.
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Paris
Robert S. McNamara
Red Chima
McNamara
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
San Francisco
Berlin
NATO
Dean Rusk
U. S
South Viet Nam
Europe
Red China
United States
Western Europe
Southeast Asia
Western Alliance
Percy weighs Senate bid against Douglas in Illinois
Chicago Bell and Howell chairman Charles H. Percy plans a Thursday discussion with company directors on a possible run for the U S Senate seat in 1966. He says family and Bell and Howell’s position will influence his decision after a news conference and a Republican unity meeting with state leaders and Dirksen endorsing his candidacy.
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Tom McNamara
Lindsay-Schaub
Chicago
Charles H. Percy
Bell & Howell Camera Co
Paul H. Douglas
Dill
U.S. Senate
Percy
Bell & Howell
Conrad Hilton
Illinois
William J. Scott
Russell J. Arrington
House
Albert Hachmeister
Harry G. Taylor
Decatur
Ilinois County
Republican
Ray Page
Richard B. Ogilvie
Cook County
U. S
Everett M. Dirksen
Ill
United States Senate
Taylor
Ilinois
Otto Kerner
U. S. Denies Escalation Near Haiphong Strike
State and Defense officials discounted the significance of a U S air strike on an electricity plant near Haiphong North Viet Nam. Decisions on possible escalation remain pending while President Johnson warned of hard steps but pledged peaceful options first.
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Washington
Defense Department
U.S
Haiphong
North
Viet Nam
Johnson
Hanoi-Haiphong
London
Harold Wilson
United States
U.N. General Assembly
Rhodesia
Wilson
Zambia
Organization of African Unity
Plane wreckage sighted near Aspen linked to missing trio
A helicopter pilot reported sighting wreckage of a light plane about 11,000 feet up on Independence Mountain near Aspen. The missing aircraft carried Dr. W Randolph Lovelace II, 57, space medicine pioneer, his wife Mary 53, and their pilot Milton Brown 27, all of Albuquerque.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Independence
Aspen
W. Randolph Lovelace II
Albuquerque
N.M
Mary
Milton Brown
Albulquerque
Withholding Rate Revision Under Study
Washington reports say the Administration is weighing a 1966 withholding tax change to help fund the Vietnam war. A Treasury plan for a revised withholding method exists, but no decision has been made. Press Secretary Moyers stressed no changes are proposed now.
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Washington
White House
Viet Nam
Bill D. Moyers
Treasury Department
Treasury
De Gaulle Leads in First Poll in Runoff
The initial public opinion poll shows President Charles de Gaulle with 55 percent of the decided vote in Sunday's runoff presidential election against Socialist François Mitterrand.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Francois Mitterand
Rainy spell with clouds through Thursday
A weather note predicts considerable cloudiness and occasional rain starting Thursday with little temperature change. Tonight’s lows in the 30s and Thursday highs from the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Frank Viet Nam talks mark first Gronouski meeting with China
In Warsaw US Ambassador Gronouski met Chinese envoy Wang Kuo Chuan for a frank two hour and 45 minute dialogue on Viet Nam and Sino US disputes. A March 16 follow up was scheduled. Gronouski emphasized US aims in Southeast Asia and sought release of five Americans.
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Warsaw
Poland
U. S
John A. Gronouski
Wang Kuo-Chuan
Red China
Gronouski
Paris
Dean Rusk
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Rusk
Peking
Washington
Wang
United States
Southeast Asia
Santa Claus Deserts Post Faces Jail
Robert Fraley a 44 year old from Paintsville Kentucky, who served as a volunteers of America St Nick in Dayton, was jailed in Springfield Ohio after abandoning a Dayton chimney and collecting on a Dayton street. He was fined 25 dollars for vagrancy and soliciting alms and sent to jail when he could not pay. He wore a Santa suit in court and asked the judge to allow him to return to his job in Dayton.
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Springfield, Ohio
Santa Claus
Robert Fraley
Paintsville
Richard T. Cole
Fraley
America St
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Gemin
Sécqens
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Senate
Percy Nears
Douglas
DE Gaulle
Britain
Ian Smith
Guinea
Tanzania
Algeria
Ayub
Pakistan
Mohammed Ayub Khan
China
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