Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years the Interstate Sanitation Commission had declared that the waters of Raritan Bay, a sizable hunk of New York Harbor, were fit for swimming, boating and fishing. When the New Republic's new reporter, James Ridgeway, took a look at Raritan in 1963, he came to an opposite conclusion. "Not unlike the environs of the River Styx," he wrote, "a foul-smelling sewer feeds the accumulated filth from 1,200,000 people into this bay every 24 hours. This mass of putrefaction oozes about New Jersey and Staten Island shores for several days, washing the beaches with quantities...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Majestic Polluted Hudson," a camera cruise down the mighty river as it picks up sewage and industrial waste for delivery to New York Harbor, plus interviews with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Senator Bobby Kennedy and others...
Three weeks later, on Pearl Harbor Day, Johnson and his top security advisers again assembled in Texas, outdoors under a warm sun.* The advice was unanimous: an announced pause in the bombing, then the quiet peace offensive. L.B.J. quickly vetoed the no-bombing public declaration. "For me to stand up and announce a bombing pause," he asserted, "would be to admit that this was a propaganda circus." With that, the President fell silent, and his advisers left the ranch convinced he was going to reject the whole idea...
...almost all resident tutors, marriage is a sin which inevitably banishes them from their House. The Masters harbor no personal animosity toward matrimony, but there is almost no room for tutors and their wives in the older Houses. In all the Houses except Quincy and Leverett less than ten married tutors, most of them Allston Burr Senior Tutors, live now as residents...
...transvestite Manila bini boys, but the bulk of them are hungry, hard-scrabbling peasants who live in the barrios of the towns and cities. Some scavenge metal from the firing ranges of U.S. bases; others cap bottles of San Miguel beer in the big stone brewery near Manila Harbor. Beneath the stately palms of Roxas Boulevard in downtown Manila, the sons of rich Filipino businessmen race their Fords past gaudy jeepneys (freelance taxis). Lovely women mingle on the streets of Manila and Olongapo, Cagayan and Baguio with horny-handed housewives and tawdry broads...