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...Army clanked along with its preparations, and the gas, with or without Maddox, should be in Sunny Point by this Friday. As an editorialist in the Washington Daily News pointed out: "There is something perverse about the grand old American habit of using oceans and rivers as convenient dump holes for all manner of poisonous crud. There must be a better...
...Bella Abzug, 50, a national leader of Women Strike for Peace and an originator of the dump-Johnson movement, was involved in most of the critical issues of the '70s long before they became part of the national dialogue. A Democratic congressional candidate from New York City, she defeated longtime Incumbent Leonard Farbstein in the Democratic primary. She is against the war, strongly in favor of women's rights, and almost a certain winner in November...
...cleanse the earth, whose subtance is the gaiety of language. The supreme fiction must be abstract, must give pleasure, and must change. This changing aspect is significant, for fictions succeed each other as men become unsatisfied with their explanations of the world; the discarded visions are tossed on the dump with the bottles and mattresses of the dead...
Delicate Positions. Salomon Bros, began as a bond trading house in 1910 and later diversified into other activities. Last year it traded some $135 billion worth of bonds-an average of $530 million every working day. The bear market caused many pension funds and trust departments to dump bonds, but Salomon was able to find enough mutual funds, other banks and individuals to buy them...
...natural wonders. The pipeline would occupy less than 15 sq. mi. of Alaska. Still, it would cross 4,800-ft. mountains, 23 rivers, 124 streams and three active earthquake zones. A single rupture could dump as much as 20,000 bbl. of oil, killing all wildlife for miles around. Moreover, tanker spills off Valdez could irreparably harm Alaska's fishing industry. In Arctic waters, where the cold prevents oil molecules from breaking down, the damage could be drastic...