Word: cleaning
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Muskie's preoccupation with the crisis of the cities is unusual in a man whose native state is predominantly rural. Yet even Maine has felt the deleterious effects of water and air pollution, and the Senator was in the forefront of those who drafted the 1963 Clean Air Act and the 1965 Water Quality Act and pushed them through the Senate...
...feet, feathers and entrails. Southerly breezes wafted the odor across the state line to the town of Selbyville, Del. After Maryland's efforts to assert control failed, Selbyville citizens began a movement that eventually persuaded the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to sue Bishop under the 1967 Clean Air Act. The smell of the processing plant, they complained, "deprives the people of life's normal pleasures." Urging that the suit be dismissed, Bishop contended that this was local activity and not a matter for federal control. The U.S. District Court of Maryland disagreed: "Malodorous pollution that adversely...
Whyte is a realist. Accepting neither a vision of the future characterized by junky, chaotic growth nor a clean, green Utopia, he calmly predicts a much more likely middle course of high-density living, where the land is used more intensively and ingeniously than at present. He has no patience with grandiose answers. Year 2000 plans? "They vault over the messy present and near future" and justify themselves with unreliable statistical projections of past trends. As for self-contained "new towns," they start with the assumption that old cities are a lost cause-despite the fact that people continue...
Ticket Strike. Other slowdowns have taken a variety of forms. To back up their demands for higher pay and shorter working hours, Kansas City firemen resorted to a slowdown in 1966 during which they continued to answer alarms but refused to keep records, make safety inspections or clean up debris after fires. Detroit policemen, demanding more money and better work conditions, staged a brief "ticket strike" last year, deliberately cut the number of summonses issued for minor traffic violations by 50%. Slowdowns also occur when workers phone in sick in large numbers, a ruse used over the past 18 months...
Good question. In Hang 'Em High, the year's grisliest movie so far, those seeds are tended until they burst into bloody bloom. Fresh from his success in a long series of Italian oaters, Clint Eastwood plays a leathery loner out to clean up a dirty territory. An unauthorized posse mistakes Eastwood for a murderer and decides that he is nooseworthy, but a kindly marshal helps him escape. Clint spends the rest of the picture ricocheting off some loquacious character actors, getting leaky with bullet holes, and running the lynch mob to earth. Along the way, the necrophilic...