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...protect and save" the mill "from any claims, demands or suits for the pollution of air or water." In the event of a suit, the city agreed to pay the first $5,000 of the company's legal costs. Today the paper mill has been joined by a clutch of chemical companies and other industries. One chemical company alone dumps 690,000 pounds of sulfuric acid daily into the Savannah River, occasionally causing the water to boil, seethe and emit the malodors of hydrogen sulfide and methane gas. The Savannah has become so polluted that not even hardened beach...
...Jackal is an outsider, unknown to the French security forces eventually unleashed against him. He begins the assignment in the reading room of the British Museum, boning up on De Gaulle's habits, and ends it-with a clutch of false papers and a hunting rifle disguised as an aluminum crutch-in a room on Paris' Rue de Rennes overlooking a liberation day ceremony...
...museum. There were his cream-colored velour hat, his checkered sports cap, his ivory-handled cane, sent over from London by his psychoanalyst daughter Anna Freud. She could not bear, however, to part with the famed couch. Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky was on hand for the occasion, with a clutch of city councilors, but Vienna is still almost as cool as it always was to its most illustrious modern son. Of the city's 113 listed psychiatrists, only twelve practice Freud's analysis, and Vienna's Freud Society was founded only a year ago-by Professor Friederich...
...royal budget* while continuing to enjoy "a complex system of tax privileges and exemptions," many never fully disclosed, on her private fortune. "One has to admire her truly regal cheek," said the New Statesman article, questioning whether Britons ought to continue to maintain "the clutch of palaces, the powdered footmen, the racing stables and polo ponies, the fleets of luxury cars, the squadrons of aircraft and helicopters, the yachts, the elaborate apparatus of consumption at its most conspicuous level...
...first game Bill Kelly's clutch pitching helped the Crimson survive a five-hit batting draught. Then in the nightcap, Harvard's hitting attack came alive in the late innings to rebound from a two-run deficit. Lefthander J. C. Nickers threw five innings of shutout ball to earn...