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Although President Nixon has not yet provided that needed leadership, his aides insist that he will speak out when the time seems right. "He's waiting for this fever to cool a little bit," explains one assistant. "It is suggested that he doesn't have any gut sympathy with the civil rights cause. That may be true, but the gut thing can get you into an awful lot of trouble. This may be the time for reflection and figuring out the next move rather than a time of breast-beating or recrimination. When we start going backward massively...
...High Fever. The pollution-control industry is smaller than the big-dollar amounts might indicate. About 1,000 companies claim to be in the act, but only 200 to 300 have any real stake. Among them are Betz Laboratories, Re-search-Cottrell, American Air Filter, Sy-bron and Zurn Industries. Most anti-pollution equipment is neither new nor exotic. In air pollution, it consists largely of particle collectors for smoke stacks, fabric filters and electrostatic precipitators. Only 10% of the money spent on water and waste treatment goes into hardware; the rest is accounted for by labor, engineering and materials...
...control equipment is selling at a $200 million-per-year rate. The market for water pollution control equipment, she says, is twice as large. Total industry sales are growing at 20% per year. Though there are certain to be failures, Wall Street has such a strong case of antipollution fever that most shares are now selling at prices around 40 times earnings, with some as high...
Talent-wise. The Band is irreproachable. Saturday night, Robertson switched effortlessly from electric to classical guitar and back again. Hudson played four instruments, although his range includes eight. On a four-minute variation leading in to "Chest Fever," his sheer talent on the organ and his vast knowledge of popular and classical music poured forth. Manuel went from piano to drums on "This Wheel's on Fire" and "When You Awake," while Helm played rhythm and gut-string guitar, Danko, on bass, was never off as his lightning fingers rambled...
...setting up a special isolation laboratory, in which the strange and deadly disease can be studied. There appeared to be good reason for haste. From the mission hospital at Jos came reports of an influx of patients, some dying, with symptoms that closely matched those of the "new" Lassa fever...