Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hempstead, N.Y., thinks that it can solve its water problems by desalting sea water with heat produced by burning rubbish in a "clean" incinerator, while Bergen County, N.J., plans to use its garbage to heat a community sports center. New York City's commissioner of air-pollution control, Austin Heller, reckons that if air-pollution could be prevented, the city could generate 25% to 50% of all the electricity it needs with garbage-fueled furnaces, thus possibly paying part of the cost of collection. After a tour of Europe, where garbage technology is years ahead of the U.S., three...
Perhaps because Gordon McLendon, 45, is a father (four children) and grandfather (two), he found it difficult to believe "that our American young people are preoccupied with thoughts of 'making out,' marijuana and birth-control pills." But when he listened carefully to the music that was played on his own 13 AM and FM radio stations, he believed-plenty. "There were songs," he said, "that glorify dope addiction, homosexuality, immorality in general. Some absolutely make permissible, if not encourage, fornication and all varieties of things that would have been called immoral 20 years...
...policeman's lot-poor pay, long hours, constant danger, public abuse-is not a happy one. Not even in Cincinnati, which is surprising in light of the fact that after 15 years of tight and intelligent control by Police Chief Stanley Shrotel, the force was considered one of the best in the nation...
...indirectly, 22 million Americans own 11 billion shares of 1,285 Big Board companies. Until 30 years ago, the exchange operated as a private club, and the little investor was usually at the mercy of manipulators. The 1901 clash between E. H. Harriman and James J. Hill for control of the Northern Pacific Railroad, for instance, wiped out many a small trader and nearly wrecked the exchange...
...coach called his pitching staff "solid and consistent." Dave Fierke, a control hurler who "threw more strikes than balls and that's all a pitcher's supposed to do," led the mound corps with a 3-1 record...