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...Weekend Crush. By contrast. New York State's new law makes no sense. Carelessly written in a seeming effort to make political capital out of the public concern over pollution, the statute relies heavily on holding tanks. State officials have outlawed any alternative overboard pumping systems. Yet the state has failed to provide, or require marinas to install, sufficient pump-out stations. After suspending enforcement for four years, New York decided to crack down this spring. Lawmen have been told that they may now board a boat without a warrant to ascertain whether it has an approved toilet. Operating...
...unlike House Parties Weekends of yesteryear, one of the highlights is not likely to be the Harvard-Princeton lacrosse game at 2 p.m. today on Finney Field. Neither team has any hope of an exceptional season, and it may be that the Crimson will be able to crush the Tigers in front of 1500 partisans...
...forms, Odyssey, one of the monumental sculptures at Hammarskjold Plaza, suggests an archaic flotilla dipping through the Aegean. Sometimes a sculpture will work not as an object but as a kinetic metaphor of force. Ascent includes a blade of red steel that surges from the ground and appears to crush a cylinder until it is halted and returned to balance by the serene oblong that blocks its path. Even in the most abstract of Liberman's new works like Above, 1970, there is a buoyancy that invites physical response: the interlocking red cylinders, with their infoldings of metal skin...
...harshness of Mrs. Bandaranaike's response showed how seriously she regarded the threat. She adjourned Parliament, ordered a 24-hour curfew and sent out her 13,000-man police force and 11,000-man army to crush the uprising. Armored units swept the road between Colombo and Kandy, and air force planes bombed a bridge and textile factory that rebels were holding...
...Dacca, East Pakistan, up to 6000 people have been killed in the West Pakistani drive to crush rebel forces, observers reported. At least 24 city blocks have been destroyed since March 26, the Associated Press said...