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...muck-bottomed reservoir could serve as a metaphor for urban malaise. Last week, in the wake of Marcus' cleanup, Jerome Park Reservoir was as spotless as the bottom of a washed soup bowl, but the Lindsay Administration was murky with implications of corruption. In the first major scandal to besmirch Lindsay's two-year-old (out of four) administration, Marcus was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of accepting a $16,000 kickback on the $835,669.39 reservoir cleaning contract...
Distorting Dissent. The cleanup bill came to $12,000, but that was only a pittance. In all, the demonstrations cost $1,078,500. The Pentagon spent $149,000 to airlift military policemen and paratroops to Washington, the Justice Department $190,000 in overtime for U.S. marshals, the D.C. government $176,000 in overtime for policemen and another $5,000 for those who ran the workhouse at Occoquan...
...booming out a tremendous triple to start everything off in the third inning. And Castoff Yankee Roger Maris, driving in still another run, his seventh of the Series, to prove that he's the money player everybody said he wasn't. And Second Baseman Julian Javier, batting cleanup by default during Cepeda's slump and pounding out a three-run, sixth-inning homer. Then there was Lou Brock. In six games, he had collected ten hits, stolen four bases and scored seven runs. So in the seventh he rapped out two more hits-and proceeded to steal...
...Bugs in his operation. On Feb. 14, a bunch of thugs dressed as cops enter Moran's garage and gun down everyone-except Moran, who happens to be off the premises. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre arouses public indignation. Thus begins the long Chicago cleanup and Capone's downfall...
...March, the grounded tanker Torrey Canyon spewed some 90,000 tons of crude oil into the coastal waters off southwestern Britain. Though only part of the oil reached the beaches, the accident cost Britain $7,000,000 in cleanup charges, polluted the sea from Cornwall to Brittany and dealt heavy damage to marine life in the area. And there are other vessels afloat that could make an even bigger mess...