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...stratospheric reservoir" to raise the strontium 90 in the bones of children in the Northeastern U.S. to as much as 4.3% of the MPC. If weapons testing continues at the same rate as the last few years, the average for the entire population of the Northeastern U.S. will gradually climb to about 20% of the MPC by the year...
...have blocked great runs of Chinook salmon and steelhead trout as they swarm in from the sea to spawn far upstream. Since pre-dam 1928, the commercial salmon catch on the Columbia River alone has decreased more than 50%. Millions have been spent on devices to help mature fish climb dams, get tiny fingerlings back safely through turbine blades and out to sea. Nothing has really succeeded. At dams higher than 100 ft., fish have to be trucked by land both ways, and Nez Perce sounded like a conservationist's nightmare. Not only would it be 800 ft. high...
...crop about harvested, Farmer Harris could figure on little profit. Bad weather cut his crop severely. He had counted on two and a quarter 500-lb. bales to an acre, but is harvesting half a bale less an acre. In addition, cotton prices have so far failed to climb above the 34? a lb. Harris counted on to bring a profit. Since Harris had harvested less cotton than the total that the Government estimated when it assessed the huge penalty, he is eligible for a rebate, says he will apply for one this week. Said he sadly: "It looks...
...shouldered Chicago-born bass, made his New York debut as Tarquinius in the 1949 Broadway production of Benjamin Britten's Rape of Lucretia, but after the short-lived Rape closed, Tozzi wound up a penniless student in Italy (he recalls being so weak from hunger that he could climb to his third-floor room only once a day). Since then, he has sung widely in Europe, last summer toured as Emile de Becque with Mary Martin in South Pacific. A onetime baritone, Tozzi has a deep, warm voice in which much of the baritone quality persists, also has fine...
AIRLINE JET PILOT'S pay will climb to $26,800 a year. First U.S. jet-age contract, signed by National Airlines and Air Line Pilots Association, sets figure as top gross pay for senior captain of four-jet Douglas DC-8 (v. $21,600 for piston-engine...