Boston blackout tests city hospitals amid power outage
Hospitals and utilities grappled with a five hour blackout affecting eight hospitals Harvard Medical School and 40 000 homes after an explosion and fire at a Boston Edison substation Emergency cases were diverted elevators stalled life support tripped and alarms failed Power was restored to homes by 12 15 a m and to hospitals shortly after The incident followed earlier outages in Back Bay and surrounding areas and prompted calls for regulatory reform from Edward Kennedy and President Carter.
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Talking translator unveiled in Texas
Texas Instruments Inc. has developed a handheld language translator that not only displays foreign vocabulary words but also uses electronic speech synthesis to pronounce them. The device marks progress in electronic vocabulary aids for travelers, solving the limitation of early calculator-like units that only displayed words and sold around $200.
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Crane says charges will hurt campaign
Rep. Philip Crane denies the allegations by Juanita Bartnett that he is a womanizer and drinks too much while noting more attacks from Union Leader publisher William Loeb. Crane says the charges burden him if credible and that his campaign in New Hampshire faces a tough task to build an organization and defend against the report. Bartnett previously worked on Crane’s campaigns and says she was connected to Crane and his wife through 1969 to 1975.
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