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...Park. At the core of the problem is sheer population pressure. "It's more crowded here now," says Joseph McCarthy, 36, a Grumman Corp. engineer who lives in East Northport, L.I. "A few years back it was almost a rural area. Now you have traffic to contend with that you never had to worry about before...
...catalogue of dangers includes flocks of migratory birds, sudden storms, atmospheric turbulence from jets, new high-rise buildings and towers along landing glide paths, instrument-confusing microwave emissions, occasional rocket launches, and the threat of collision with other planes. Now pilots have something utterly unexpected to contend with. In its latest "Notams" (Notices to Airmen), the Federal Aviation Administration has warned aircraft to keep clear of four laser experiment sites: McDonald Observatory, near Fort Davis, Texas: a Harvard observatory northwest of Boston: the University of Arizona's Catalina Observatory 20 miles northeast of Tucson: and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory...
...profitable is the business of building aircraft, tanks, missiles and other weapons for the Pentagon? Defense contractors contend that their earnings average no more-and often less-than those of other manufacturers, and the current difficulties of the Lockheed Corp. seem to bear them out. Yet charges have often been leveled that defense contractors make excessive profits on contracts for the military, frequently without much risk. Last week the controversy was given new life when a draft report by the Government's General Accounting Office leaked out after GAO staffers became fearful that its findings might be watered down...
Defense industry spokesmen, who decline to be named, argue that the 146 contracts selected by the GAO are misleading and unrepresentative, partly because none involved competitive bidding. The spokesmen suggest-without saying why-that the GAO's accounting methods are wrong, and they contend that it is impossible to separate profits contract by contract. Who is right? Perhaps no one will ever know. The GAO, which is responsible to Congress, was forbidden by the House Operations Committee in 1965 to name companies or cite specific contracts after it was severely criticized before the committee for being overzealous...
...rising clamor over phosphates, a basic detergent ingredient that loosens grime in hard water. Detergent phosphates flow into the nation's waterways, where they act as nutrients and cause excessive growth of algae. In a complex process called eutrophication, these algae ultimately pollute lakes and rivers. Soap-men contend that the major sources of phosphates in the waterways are not laundry products but sewage and runoffs from chemical fertilizer...