Word: diversionism
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IT WAS NOT a particularly enjoyable diversion to watch Harvard's football team play last year-unless you attended one of the six colleges that sent the Crimson down to its worst season since 1957. Generally considered to be the team to beat in the Ivy League with a flock...
Both the leftist Progressive Labor Party and Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. see the movement as a diversion from more important national priorities. Joining them in this view are many antiwar students who feel that peace far outranks pollution as a protest goal. S.D.S. chapters on many campuses have...
Fighting the Enemy. The committee leaders themselves have close ties to President Nixon. Graham is a personal friend, and it was during his recent Knoxville, Tenn., crusade that Nixon made one of the few public speeches of his presidency. The rally's executive chairman was Hotelman J. Willard Marriott...
At the heart of the scheme is a 43-mile-long canal that will carry 4.1 million acre-feet* of water per year from the Sacramento River and divert it around the Delta-a huge, fertile area of meandering waterways near San Francisco that is irrigated by the Sacramento and...
According to some ecologists, it will also be one of the most dangerous. They argue that lowering the water level of the Delta will allow salt water from San Francisco Bay to flow into the verdant Delta region and upset its ecological balance. Other ecologists predict that the diversion of...