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...also a political master stroke that cut through dozens of Democrat-sponsored environmental bills already proposed or on the books. In effect, the President said that no one is yet certain how to cure all pollution, but that his Administration will now seek the best available answers. Wherever conflicting interests arise-for example, between agricultural pollution and productivity-Nixon called for thorough study by the Council on Environmental Quality. His Democratic critics felt co-opted, to say the least. As one Senate staff expert put it: "We recognize a lot of the proposals as our own. But there...
Brody began elevating what had started as grandiose charity to a form of free-associating, hallucinatory good will. "I can cure cancer," he said. "Anyone who believes in me can never die. I need seven days, and I'll save the world." He turned up at the gates of the White House to see the President about his plan to end the war. Then, rather weirdly, he told a television interviewer: "I would suggest that Nixon make me a general in the United States Army and I'll go [to Viet Nam]. I can destroy as well...
...example closer to home: though President Nixon prescribes an increased dose of technology to cure pollution, his medicine may well have side effects. Consider his $10 billion plan to build new primary and secondary municipal water-treatment plants. While such plants do make water cleaner, they also have two serious faults. Unlike more expensive tertiary treatment plants, they do not exterminate man-killing viruses, like those that cause infectious hepatitis. They also convert organic waste into inorganic compounds, especially nitrates and phosphates. When these are pumped into rivers and lakes, they fertilize aquatic plants, which flourish and then die. Most...
WITH every new demand for electricity, U.S. generating plants belch more smoke into the nation's dirty skies. In theory, the cure is nuclear power-a vision of clean, cheap electricity and smog-free air. Now that vision is being challenged by a growing coalition of conservationists, laymen and legislators who raise disturbing questions about the dangers of the peaceful atom. The critics are vocal and active-and they are getting results...
...Administration contends that the solution for housing's plight is to cure inflation, which should not only allow all interest rates to decline but increase the flow of money into the prime sources of mortgage loans: savings and loan associations and savings banks. That may take some time. Meanwhile, the nation's output of housing is likely to decline further and the high price of home loans seems certain to fan demands in Congress for measures to funnel less costly money into home financing...