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By an overwhelming 5-to-1 margin, St. Louis passed a $95 million bond issue to control pollution of the Mississippi River. Currently, 72 sewers in the St. Louis area pour 300 million gallons of raw sewage into the river every day. After years of talk, nearly every important civic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The States: Changing the Face | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

∙ PAPER SHREDDER. A new office paper shredder not much bigger than a typewriter comes from Michael Lith Sales Corp. of Manhattan. The Destroyit Super-Speed can digest 500 Ibs. of confidential letters, microfilm, ledger sheets, contracts, blueprints in an hour, is not upset by stray paper clips or staples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marketplace: Build Small | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

Unanimously upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals: the conviction of William F. Rickenbacker, 34, an editor of the conservative National Review and son of Eastern Air Lines Board Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker, for refusing to fill out the 1960 census questionnaire. Contending that the form was "snoopy" and "an unnecessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 9, 1962 | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

He was destined for the Navy. Son of a Brooklyn real estate man, Anderson developed a childhood love of the sea while running an outboard motorboat in the waters off Long Island's South Shore. A bright kid, he zipped through a Jesuit high in fast time, graduated at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CNO: Unfaltering Competence & an Uncommon Flair | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

Ever since housewives started dunking the family's dirty clothes and dishes in synthetic detergents, the nation's sewers have been swamped by an expanding flow of foam. Down the drainpipe, on through the sewage-disposal plant, the synthetic cleaners keep right on bubbling until contaminated rivers froth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Engineering: Help It Foam | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

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