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Most steel mills are heavy polluters of air and water. So the residents of Baytown, Texas, were understandably aghast when U.S. Steel acquired 15,000 acres for a new plant right next to Cedar Bayou, a valued local fish and wildlife refuge. Now the new plant, known as Texas Works, has been officially opened after six months of operation at one-third capacity. To the delight of all, it appears to be a model of enlightened industry-the first steel mill ever to make an effort to be clean clear through...
...attack, in Stanford eyes, came from local police. Armed with a search warrant, cops raided the offices of the Stanford Daily seeking reporters' notes and photographs that supposedly implicated some participants in a demonstration at the university hospital. While strongly critical of the police, campus officials were equally aghast at a series of violent acts that seemed to be largely the work of nonstudents...
...same time, there is deep disenchantment with the way the U.S. has fought the war. The Asians have seen that B-52s and free-fire zones are no answer to a local insurgency, and they are aghast at how badly U.S. technology and firepower have ravaged the countries they were supposed to save. Says the Philippines' Marcos: "I articulate what most of the nations feel-and what is that? Heaven forbid that war should come to their countries, and heaven forbid that the U.S. should duplicate what it has done in South Viet Nam if that war should come...
Plots and Plots. Last year, Barr expelled five sixth-graders, four for what he labeled "extortion," the fifth for stealing $15 from a teacher in order to meet the alleged junior extortionists' demands. As some parents saw it, this was a case for psychiatry, not punishment. They were aghast when Barr reportedly chortled to a school assembly, "I guess we got rid of those little gangsters, didn't we?" In a showdown board meeting last November, a faction of anti-Barr trustees asked for the headmaster's head. Eventually they were mollified by the appointment...
Fear v. Freedom. Now considered the Senate's ranking constitutional expert, Ervin is aghast that proliferating Government data banks are being fed undigested information on merely "potential" lawbreakers. Last week Ervin heard evidence that assorted public and private agencies now keep ten to 20 dossiers on virtually every American. The dossiers often stress political activities, sexual behavior and credit records, and invite misuse by officials as well as employers...