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Crotti's barnyard brainstorm has already undergone tests at a 31,500-gal. spill in the Mississippi River 20 miles downstream from New Orleans. The oil had spread over a 14-mile area, washing into coves and turning the marshy ground into a black mush the locals call "gumbo." While strings of floating booms helped contain the spill, a four-man team from Peterson Maritime Services, the largest private firm in the gulf area treating oil spills, began tossing out about 100 lumpy white squares from their flat-bottomed swamp boats. Almost at once, the muck began to stick...
...races earlier in the day were delayed by huge chunks of ice and wood floating downstream. After every race, they'd have to clean the whole course," said cox Greg Soghikian...
...Upstream begins way downstream, as two middle-class English couples prepare to set off together on a seven-day holiday up the River Orb. Trouble begins with a peevish squabble between Keith (Robin Bowerman), who organized the party, and his wife June (Carole Boyd). The next morning the Hadforth Bounty, Britain in miniature, starts its uncertain journey to Armageddon Bridge-where, as in the Bible, good and evil will meet in final conflict...
...dollar grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, the MDC completed in 1972 a $4 million treatment plant in Cambridge, near the Boston University bridge that had chlorinated and screened about a third of the sewage overflow before dumping it into the Charles. He added that a similar plant just downstream from the Boston Museum of Science began operating earlier this year...
BETWEEN 1:45 and 4 p.m. today 57,000 otherwise steady individuals will blow their tops. The mud flats of Soldiers Field will tremble under the pounding and stampings of the huge audience, and the groans and yips will travel downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff forkids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughiest kids in the territory. After the game the breath of liquor with hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable...