19 NOVEMBER 1965, Page 9

It Can't Happen Here 'The fact that 80.000 square miles

of affluent society could be thrown into confusion [by the New York blackout] was dramatic evidence of the vulnerability of the public, which had been told that such a thing could never happen.. .

'The Central Electricity Generating Board . . . said it was impossible to visualise a similar situation arising in this country. . .

The Times, November 11, 1965

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