Word: environmentalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JOHN TUNNEY, 36, Democrat, Calif., is the youngest Senate member by two years. His chief concern will be the economy, given his state's high unemployment. He will probably support measures to push Nixon harder on Viet Nam withdrawals. He is a tough environmentalist, and three congressional terms have convinced him that internal reform is vital...
Oblivious to the furor, the A.A.A.S.'s nominating committee picked Seaborg as one of its presidential candidates last June. The organization's board of directors immediately raised the conflict-of-interest question. At least eleven of the 13 board members-including Environmentalist Barry Commoner (TIME cover, Feb. 2)-questioned the choice of Seaborg, whose election they felt was certain because the other nominee was a relatively unknown acoustical expert, Richard H. Bolt. Furthermore, even though the A.A.A.S. had not yet acted on Muskie's request, the board members pointed out that one of the organization...
...most polluted region: Upper Silesia, a mineral-rich and heavily industrialized area near the Czech border. In 1965, the provincial government decided that unless it strengthened its 15-year-old environmental control program, Upper Silesia was headed for ecological ruin. As a result of ensuing reforms, one environmentalist told Pines, "I think we started fighting pollution in time...
Enlarge GM's Board of Directors from 24 to 27 seats, adding three representatives of the public. The group's candidates were Betty Furness, President Johnson's special assistant for consumer affairs; Rene Dubos, a University of Chicago biologist and environmentalist; and the Rev. Channing Phillips, a civil rights leader in Washington...
Charles A. Lindbergh has always been a fascinating blend of contradictions: mystic and mechanic, first hero of the machine age, world-traveling anchorite. As the aviation age that he inaugurated and helped to build fills the skies with metal and gases, he has become a passionate environmentalist, speaking round the world to promote conservation and speaking privately against production of the supersonic transport that he originally encouraged...