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GEORGE A. BRAKELEY III New Canaan, Conn...
Residents of Manchester, Conn., were startled six years ago when they learned that a highway interchange proposed for Interstate 84 would munch up 50 acres of greenery that had been zoned for recreation near the center of town. The highway construction, the townspeople complained, would destroy three baseball diamonds, a football field, and a small playground and would take up space allotted for future recreational developments...
...there are pressures for the organization to take a public position on the negotiations. One league official predicts the formation of splinter groups at the league's convention in September. The meeting, the official concedes, is likely to be a stormy one. Mrs. James Stockdale of Branford, Conn., league founder, acknowledges "a tremendous divergence of opinions." Says Mrs. Stockdale: "There is the whole range-from immediate withdrawal to 'trust the President.' But as time goes on our frustration grows. The families are frantic...
...Another reaction was to blame environmentalists for the infestation. Because he recommended no aerial spraying of pesticides, Elmer Madsen of the Bristol, Conn., conservation commission received a box of squirming caterpillars from an angry resident. Someone else called him one night to complain "The noise of the worms eating is keeping me awake." This month three aspirants for political office in Bristol announced that they would run on an ecological backlash ticket. Their theme: Spray pesticides next year...
...quits, at least for most of its top executives and their staffs. The company will move 500 members of its 800-man headquarters staff-including the chairman, the president and many vice presidents-into a new office complex to be built on a 100-acre wooded site in Fairfield, Conn., 55 miles from the horrendous traffic congestion and frazzled nerves that characterize life in Manhattan. The offices, to be completed in 1974, will serve as a sort of corporate think tank, where G.E.'s long-range planners can cogitate amidst chirping birds and croaking frogs...