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...Drop. The disposal plan has stirred the same furor that forced the Army to cancel similar shipments twice in the past year. The specter of the gas escaping to pollute the ocean has been raised by both England and the Bahamas, and indeed, environmentalists are worried. There is no positive proof that the dumping will or will not cause permanent damage. Dr. Howard L. Sanders, senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, called the plan "sheer, unbelievable inefficiency and stupidity." Florida Governor Claude Kirk went one step further, promising to "pursue every avenue available...
Planetary Probes. That is not likely to happen. NASA has already scrubbed one of the seven remaining moon missions, and it may well cancel three more. Some of the Apollo's big Saturn 5 boosters will be used to establish small earth-orbiting space stations such as the three-man Sky lab scheduled for launching in 1972. But even these schemes-not to mention more ambitious space stations-could be set back by a balky Congress. Certainly, a decision to send Americans to Mars will not be made for years to come. The only phase of the space program...
...American Council on Education has issued cautious guidelines. Colleges that lend a substantial portion of their facilities to groups backing specific candidates or legislation may compromise their legal status as educational institutions and forfeit their exemption from local property taxes and federal taxes on endowment income. This would also cancel their contributors' right to deduct gifts from their tax returns. Also in danger of losing their educational status: colleges that shorten rather than rearrange their schedules thereby, in effect, allowing students and faculty to campaign on school time...
...request that the sponsors of the Summerthing concerts in the Harvard Stadium immediately cancel the remaining shows to minimize the possibility of another rampage...
...week's end many factories shut for the annual two-week summer vacation, leaving thousands with time on their hands, paychecks in their pockets and nowhere to spend either but Ulster's pubs. All leaves for hospital personnel in main cities were canceled through parade day. Many prisoners were moved from Belfast to jails elsewhere to make way for the expected influx of new inmates. Despite pleas from Westminster and the Ulster government to cancel the 18 parades scheduled throughout the land, the only concession made was to reroute some away from Catholic areas. Catholics, meanwhile, began organizing...