Word: cleaning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...SACRAMDNTO, CAL.-Oil-fouled beaches and "the right to breathe clean air" have made conservation a heated legal and political issue in California...
...then the Mets got tired of losing. They acquired a new breed of men; men who had been raised on a Breakfast of Champions, men with strong, clean names like Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman. And suddenly they began to win. In the year 1969, the Amazin's beat out the Chicago Cubs for their division title; then they whipped the boys from Atlanta soundly to win the National League pennant...
...trust" held by the state for the benefit of the people. In the past, this doctrine has formed the basis of cases concerned with submerged lands (where the public interest involves navigation, commerce, fishing rights). Washington Lawyer Anthony Roisman believes that the doctrine can be expanded to include a clean environment. Indeed, it has prevented the filling of several lakes around Madison...
Intolerable Conditions. Such public airing of environmental problems has produced some important results. In New York, the legislature has adopted a proposed state constitutional amendment that guarantees every resident the right to a clean environment. Even more significant, the U.S. Senate recently passed bills introduced by Senators Henry Jackson and Edmund Muskie (now being reworded in House-Senate conferences) that would oblige all federal agencies to protect the environment and make that protection a new constitutional right...
...WERE THE CAMPAIGN by Ben Sfavis. 206 pages. Beacon. $7.50 (paper, $2.95). A graduate student turned activist provides a nuts-and-bolts report on the other half of the McCarthy phenomenon, the get-clean-for-'Gene "children's crusade...