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...Government has responded to their efforts by restricting the use of DDT. Several states have gone even further, banning the chemical completely. But DDT still has its defenders. The World Health Organization, admittedly more concerned with public health than conservation, has warned that a ban on DDT spraying could doom worldwide malaria-eradication efforts, which in the past 25 years have freed more than 1 billion people from the debilitating disease...
...occasional note of optimism voiced by admissions directors to placate their alumni and salve their wounded spirits, the outlook is bleak for the prep schools. If the economic squeeze isn't damaging enough, the growing rebellion of once awed or indifferent thirteen-year-olds should be enough to doom a few schools and hurt, if not cripple, many others...
...nature, proclaimed dangers on every front but failed to set clear priorities for action. Ghetto blacks were incensed when white collegians buried perfectly good cars as a protest against smog. Others wearied of the apocalyptic warnings of the "New Jeremiahs" ?ecologists with an almost masochistic appetite for doom, and demographers with passion for slogans ("Stop at two"). Even ecologists scoffed at faddists who denounced colored toilet paper on the theory that the dyes polluted rivers. "Poppycock!" said Du Pont's chemists, and no other experts disagreed. UNIVERSAL YEARNING. Yet the backlash soon waned. Whatever exaggerations may have been committed...
...State Department. In terms of economic ideology, Connally is an enigma: he recently observed that the Administration's attack on inflation could not succeed without wage and price controls, but he has not said what he would do instead. Democratic liberals in Congress feel his appointment spells doom for serious tax reform and for any real commitment by the Administration to the goal of full employment. But to Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and the single most important power on the Hill in economic matters, Connally "is a very able...
What sets Buckley apart from so many other ideological conservatives, is his obvious class, the way he wears his education and inherited money with nonchalance. His manner exudes sincerity and good will. During the campaign he pronounced the usual warnings of doom, decadence and destruction by federal power, but he said these things without malice. Buckley could take a hard stand on campus dissenters, but, as one of his aides put it: "Jim was not the guy who was about to bayonet your kids...