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These scenes are part of a national nonprofit cleanup effort called Keep America Beautiful, Inc. Though their characters sometimes seem straight out of Norman Rockwell paintings, the surprising thing is that the campaign is working. So well, in fact, that dozens of American cities have sharply cut their Utter levels in the past few years. In Atlanta alone, where representatives of Keep America Beautiful as well as delegates from 14 foreign countries gathered last week for the 1980 conference of Clean World International, litter has been reduced by 52%. Two smaller Georgia cities have done even better. In Rome...
Explanations for the emergence of Bobby "Kong" Kelley? "That's no new-found power," the second baseman says, "That's a short centerfield fence." And, insiders concede, Kelley will not soon be trading his leadoff spot for Mark Bingham's cleanup position. But this is a much-improved Kelley...
...frightened families. The local real estate market is about what it was and, reported an agent, would probably be a lot better if mortgage money were more readily available. Retail business in the community has actually improved, at least in part because of the influx of well-paid plant cleanup crews. "Sales have never been better," said Jack Baker, manager of a Middletown haberdashery. "There are a lot of people with $50 bills around town...
...friends believe that nuclear power still has a future, and even many antinuclear people in the area acknowledge that they are probably correct. To be sure, there is stubborn opposition to reopening the disabled and discredited Unit 2 when the cleanup is over. Met-Ed estimates it will take at least three years (federal authorities put the figure closer to five). But Middletowners are resigned to the fact that the company will probably start up the nuclear reactor in Unit 1 some time around the end of the year. Unit 1, which was undamaged by the accident in its sister...
...based on extensive interviews with patients, former patients, relatives of murdered patients, guards, former guards, doctors, social workers, and bureaucrats connected with the hospital. The shocking articles led to major investigations, several indictments of guards for murder and many others for other crimes, the dismissal of doctors, a general cleanup of Farview, and a 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Rawls and Moore. Cold Storage is the record of this research and reporting...