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...Aside from its GM decision, Harvard faces pressure to take stands in two other proxy battles. Both involve power companies accused of polluting: the Boston Edison Company, and Commonwealth Edison of Chicago...
Finfer-who arranged yesterday's meeting-has sent a letter to every member of the Overseers and the Corporation asking Harvard to support insurgent stockholders in the GM controversy and in stockholder campaigns against two other companies-Commonwealth Edison of Chicago and Boston Edison-in which the University holds stock...
...Miami's Edison High School, Mike Robinson complained: "Now that teachers are being shifted around, we black students are afraid of losing teachers we have begun to trust and respect. We had six black teachers removed. It was a court order, so they just went." Most of the fifth-graders in an overwhelmingly black Newburgh, N.Y., school told an NBC interviewer last week that they were against integration and did not want to be bused to an integrated school, partly out of fear that the whites would outnumber them and try to boss them around. James Stewart spoke succinctly...
...waterways. Congress has already authorized about $1 billion in funding for pollution control in this fiscal year alone. In addition, U.S. companies in 1969 invested an estimated $1.5 billion -up 40% for the year-to control the air and water pollution they create. New York City's Con Edison, for example, has spent $60 million in the last decade on equipment such as a $10 million precipitator to curb smoke pollution...
Increasing public opposition has already been responsible for halting the construction of several reactors; orders for new atomic plants have dropped from a peak of 31 in 1967 to seven in 1969. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. has been forced to postpone some nuclear plants and turn to gas turbines for power. Minnesota's Pollution Control Agency has defied the Atomic Energy Commission and imposed its own stringent radiation standards on a reactor being built by Northern States Power. While the utility has gone to court to challenge the power of a state to regulate atomic energy...