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...dawn on Friday, April 24, 1970, a calculated attempt was made to burn to the ground the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, California. Fires were set at four different sites; had they all taken hold, most of the Center would have disappeared, along with the lives of two college students asleep in the caretaker's cottage. Good fortune, timely discovery, and expert fire fighting prevented the worst. But the actuality was bad enough: to speak only of measurable losses, ten studies were completely burned-one-fifth of the total-with varying destruction to the work...
When DDT came on the scene after World War II. Cambridge's robin population took a sudden drop. "Once, every morning before dawn, there was a rolling chorus of robins." Walcott noted. "To my cars, there has not been a robin chorus in Cambridge since...
...Titanic sails at dawn. Everybody's shouting "Which side are you on?" And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower, while calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers. Dylan
...campuses and 10,000 schools, students, teachers-and sometimes parents-observed Earth Day by studying such previously recondite subjects as hydrocarbons and acid drainage from coal mines. Much of the day was given to theater and ritual. At the University of Wisconsin, 58 separate programs were staged, including a dawn "earth service" of Sanskrit incantations...
...Explanations. State officials moved quickly to restore order. Kansas Governor Robert Docking declared a "state of public emergency" and dispatched 242 National Guardsmen and 25 state troopers to help fatigued local police enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Police arrested 68 students and youths, three of them for possession of an incendiary device. Some 350 white businessmen formed an organization for better law enforcement to protect their property...