Word: akron
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Last week 42 U.S. Congressmen introduced a bill to ban phosphates in detergents by June 1973. New York's Suffolk County barred the sale of all detergents after residents complained of suds and noxious odors in their drinking water. A ban on detergent phosphates in Akron, Ohio, is being contested in court...
...believe that the claim by National Guardsmen that their lives were endangered was fabricated subsequent to the event." The book is partly a collection of pieces about the shootings which Stone wrote late last year for the New York Review of Books, with a special report by the Akron Beacon-Journal, a summary of the FBI report-never published before-and the text of the original grand jury report appended...
...ecstasy which there are no words to describe." After leaving the hospital, Wilson tried to help other drunks achieve similar religious experiences, but found that he also needed medical facts to crack their tough egos. In 1935 he got the help he needed when he met "Dr. Bob," Akron Surgeon Robert H. Smith, a fellow Vermonter who had vainly tried to control his own compulsive drinking. Together they founded Alcoholics Anonymous...
...December, the Akron city council ordered local stores to quit selling detergents containing phosphates by June 30, 1972. Reason: phosphates, a prime source of water pollution, are forcing cities like Akron to build more and more costly sewage-treatment plants. Last week the Soap and Detergent Association, whose members produce 90% of the nation's cleaning agents, asked Akron's Summit County common pleas court in effect to void the ban. In the first such industry suit in the U.S., the plaintiffs not only called the Akron deadline "impossible" but also claimed that it will force soap manufacturers...
Only one team, Akron University. had three players mentioned on the All American list. The Zips placed one starter on the first team and had two honorable mentions...