Word: airings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALLEN GINSBERG IN AMERICA, by Jane Kramer. Earnest, articulate and somehow despairingly sanguine, Allen Ginsberg has evolved from a minor poet to a major cult figure-a kind of one-man air ferry between bohemian and Brahmin traditions. Wisely, perhaps, Author Kramer concentrates on the life rather than the works...
...soon and by 1980, the nation's biggest commercial airport, covering more land than the entire city of Miami. Equally enthusiastic, the U.S. Transportation Department has granted $700,000 to develop the first runway, and to look into high-speed ground transportation, such as a monorail train and air-cushion vehicles running between the jetport and Miami...
...ecoactivists include groups as straight-arrow as the Girl Scouts, who last week campaigned for clean air in places ranging from Hartford, Conn., to smog-threatened Fairfax, Va. Among other young ecoactivists are the Ashland (Wis.) High School juniors who recently demonstrated in support of Duluth's Pollution Enforcement Conference. Alarmed at the growing damage to Lake Superior's ecology, they plan to confront dumpers of industrial wastes that are slowly polluting the only Great Lake that can still be called clean...
Thirty Years to So. At George Washington University, a group of law students recently confronted this classroom assignment: "Determine what legal actions might be brought by a local citizens' committee to stop air pollution caused by city buses." The students were only too familiar with the clouds of black smoke and particles emitted by D.C. Transit System buses, and when the assignment was finished, eight of them put their lessons to work by founding GASP (Greater Washington Alliance to Stop Pollution). Students at Western Washington State College are engaged in a long-range study aimed at keeping healthy lakes...
Died. Lieut. General George Stratemeyer, 78, one of the country's foremost air tacticians; of a heart attack; in Orlando, Fla. A veteran of the Burma and China campaigns during World War II, Stratemeyer pushed hard for a strong peacetime Air Force, and as commander in the Far East during the Korean War, he quickly established U.N. air superiority over the Communists...