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...places were PCB levels higher than in the Hudson, where GE's two capacitor plants had been dumping them at the rate of about 30 lbs. per day since the early 1950s. In tests conducted last summer, striped bass, carp and other fish species were found to contain many times the allowed federal limit of 5 parts of PCBs per million. One eel was found to have 559.25 parts per million of the chemical-an amount so high that an adult who ate a 7 oz. portion would get 50% of his lifetime allowance of the substance...
Overcrowding in several Harvard Houses is reducing the number of "senior singles"--individual suites that contain both a living room and bedroom--offered to seniors each year, according to a survey of house secretaries yesterday...
Most of the other River Houses, although originally built to include senior singles, have since decided to eliminate this housing option. The Quad Houses were designed to contain mainly one-room singles and doubles...
...figures point to a healthy, not wild recovery-but do contain a promise of further acceleration in the months to come. The fast pace of consumer spending and sales is keeping businessmen from rebuilding the inventories they slashed deeply last year. If sales stay strong, retailers will have to step up their orders for new goods to rebuild stockpiles so that they do not run out of items that customers want to buy. Result: production increases later this year that will be larger than expected...
...attitude of the admissions office can be illustrated by the case of Los Angeles. A steady source of Mexican-American students for Harvard in past years, Los Angeles and its suburbs contain 36 high schools with Chicano populations exceeding 50 per cent, Garcia says...