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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Essential though it is, the automobile has one major fault: wherever it is used in large numbers, its internal-combustion engine contributes mightily to air pollution problems. As a result, automakers have already been sued on various grounds for degrading the environment. Moreover, they will have to move with unaccustomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Ford's Better Idea | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Just when most farmers are settling down for a winter's rest, Virgil Steyer Jr. is usually working hardest. Steyer grows Christmas trees on large tracts near secluded Mount Storm, W. Va. (pop: 160); every December he serves droves of customers attracted from miles around by the high quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Custer's Last Stand | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Mount Storm's air is being fouled by emissions from the smokestacks of two huge coal-burning power plants owned by Virginia Electric and Power Co. Since the plants were fired up in 1966, harvests of Mount Storm's tree farmers have tumbled by as much as 90...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Custer's Last Stand | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

> At the University of Akron, a dozen black students occupied the administration building while the president and 19 staff members locked themselves in their offices. Responding to rumors that the blacks were armed and shots had been fired, Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes rushed 90 state troopers to the campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Campus Communiqu | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Long-Run Loss? The law has just been upheld by a 2-to-1 vote of a panel of three federal judges. Its chief purpose, said the majority, is to "promote the welfare of the people." While it may indirectly benefit sectarian teaching, the state remains neutral toward religion-just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Saving Parochial Schools | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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