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...insult to injury by becoming baseball's most accomplished base thief. He has stolen 43 so far this season. Tony Perez bats No. 3. He still leads the Reds in batting average with .334, but in the power categories he has fallen behind Cincy's Catcher and Cleanup Man Johnny Bench, who leads the majors in home runs (40) and RBIs (115), and sets new criteria for excellence at his position No. 5, Rookie Outfielder Bernie Carbo, has the face of a matinee idol, and 19 home runs in only 263 at bats. They are all backed...
...consumer can do his part by consciously patronizing those firms which are not bent on a cleanup of the public but are making a determined effort to clean up their effluents...
June 1968, he has been the symbolic leader of Bureau of Land Management programs directed toward environmental protection, particularly litter cleanup and prevention. In this brief time, the Johnny Horizon Program has been exceptionally successful. Thirty thousand people in 18 Western states participated last October in the most extensive single cleanup campaign ever held...
...thousands of barrels of brown crude oil started to gush into the water, posing a threat to the Louisiana coast's wildlife refuges and rich oyster beds. Fortunately the slicks blew out to sea, but Hickel said that the Interior Department will hold Chevron liable for any necessary cleanup. In addition, the Government may sue the company for 147 violations of federal offshore drilling regulations. Maximum penalty: $2,000 per day for each violation. Chevron could have cut the damage, officials say, by installing legally required "storm chokes" that close wells when the oil flow gets out of control...
Avalanche of Money. Back of all -the expanding activity is the expansive talk about the vast amounts of cash that will be needed for the big cleanup. The Federal Water Pollution Control Administration estimates that the cost of bringing polluted streams and lakes up to federal standards would amount to $26 billion to $29 billion between 1969 and 1973. Senator Henry Jackson of Washington figures that cleaning and deodorizing the air will cost $12 billion to $15 billion during the next five years. President Nixon has prepared a $10 billion, five-year program to build municipal waste-treatment plants...