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Your class seems to have cleaner lungs than those of the past. Only 6 per cent of men, 15 per cent of women said they smoked. For still undetermined reasons, (higher neuroticism level perhaps) prep school females ranked highest on tabacco consumption. And the administration can't seem to figure out why so many freshmen answered "not cigarettes" to the question "do you smoke...

Author: By Hannah J. Zackson, | Title: How'd You Get Stuck With A Tuba Player? | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

...Bufo marinus is a vacuum cleaner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Bufo Plague | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

Fishermen in modern, mechanized trawlers can easily draw bottom fish off the ocean floor with a kind of vacuum cleaner or haul in whole finny schools in a single huge seine net. Industrialized nations, like runners poised in their starting blocks, are awaiting only one thing before the race for the sea resources begins in earnest. They have to know who has legal title to all that wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE OCEANS: Wild West Scramble for Control | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

Jack's language was cleaner than Dick's. This insight into the comparative virtues of the Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Nixon was made last week in the Washington Post by JFK's press secretary Pierre Salinger. If transcripts of Kennedy's Oval Office conversations existed, asserts Pierre, they would have revealed Jack's easy authority over his staff. There would have been no need to have the letter P placed before his utterances, as it is in the Nixon transcripts, because Kennedy aides always called the boss "Sir" or "Mr. President." Pierre burnishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 10, 1974 | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...spokesman explained patiently that Con Ed will get the power for Storm King from "cleaner" (thermal and radiation pollution aside) nuclear generating plants. But most of Con Ed's nuclear plants have not been allowed to operate at full capacity-in fact, some have not been allowed to operate at all. If this situation continues, the spokesman assured, the power would be purchased from other members of the Northeast Power Grid. If fuel oil is to be wasted, the reasoning apparently runs, it won't be ours; if the air is to be polluted, atleast...

Author: By Rich Meislin, | Title: Denying Consolidated Edison | 4/25/1974 | See Source »

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