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...proposal to dump wastes into the oceanic trenches [April 5] merits serious consideration. However, by current hypotheses, sediments overlying these trenches are as apt to be squeezed into mountain ranges as to be buried in the earth's interior. Thus, eons hence, mountaineering expeditions could find themselves planting their flags on the garbage of the 20th century...
...Others are installing compromise devices with small holding tanks good for about 50 flushes, which can then be carried ashore and spilled into the nearest toilet. Whatever the size of a holding tank, however, critics point out that its contents end up in municipal sewage plants -which in turn dump their often undertreated effluent into waterways...
...concern, with five minutes remaining' in the game was unwarranted. After holding off an inspired Harvard effort for thirty minutes, Brown's powerful lacrosse squad had tallied four third-period goals and went on to dump the Crimson, 11-5, eliminating it from the Ivy race, and all but extinguishing any Harvard hopes of a bid to the NCAA playoffs...
There is, of course, the McCarthy precedent for such a challenge. But unlike McCarthy, McCloskey is not necessarily seeking the presidency. "I would not expect to win. I have neither the background nor the training," he demurs. Nor is he much interested in precipitating a "dump Nixon" movement. More likely, he hopes that by a good showing in the New Hampshire primary, or even the threat of one, he can embarrass the President into ending...
...sluttish convulsive, the other a painfully shy Plain Jane. Beatrice's family makes its home in a ground-floor apartment that looks like the setting of The Glass Menagerie thirty years and several natural disasters later. For money there is the rent mother collects from cruel families who dump their dying elderly in the flat's spare room...