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...radioactive package has been loaded on the TWA flight. Two men, armed with Geiger counter and ionization chamber, run up the loading ramp. They have about ten minutes to go over the cabin before passengers begin to board...
Angry Wolves. One of the gut issues continues to be white-collar jobs for project residents. Dr. Jack Geiger, the center's creator, points out that pumping large amounts of cash-the current budget is $1.4 million-into a desperately poor area is risky. "It's like throwing a pound of meat to 50 angry wolves," he says. "They'll kill each other to get a bite." But racial pride and sensitivity about the condescending attitudes of some white professionals are also crucial factors. Gloria Nelms, a black former psychiatric counselor at Columbia Point who is among...
...women. ("She's a human dynamo-charging everything." "Many a gal has made it to the top because her dress didn't.") This year, however, the ladies get a slightly better shake. Acting on a letter from a Maryland woman who complained about male chauvinism. Editor Ray Geiger has included in the 1973 edition a two-page article stressing women's intellectual equality and right to equal opportunities. Admits Geiger: "The belief that 'it's a man's world' quite evidently becomes less valid with every passing day and year." But old habits...
Tree and edible plant identification has been replaced by a section on recognizing dangerous and illegal drugs. There is a picture of a Scout using a Geiger counter. Treatment for snakebite is still discussed, but the text also offers advice on what to do if bitten by such urban wildlife as slum rats. ("Be sure that the animal's saliva is all washed away . . . Get medical help...
...also won the Geiger Trophy on Sunday with Tufts and the University of Rhode Island also ahead of Harvard. Putnam with John Dodge and Brownlee with Doug Libby took third and fifth respectively in the two dinghy divisions. John Bowers was third in the Finn Class, while Middendorf, Clem Wood, and White finished second in the sloop class...