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...plan to stop polluting the lake within six months. According to an EPA-sponsored study, one solution would be to dump the taconite inland, but Reserve said no. The mining company offered instead to pipe the taconite directly to the lake bottom, where it would supposedly form a harmless reef. That was not the answer, said Ruckelshaus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Test on Taconite | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

...United Church of Christ's proxy resolution on disclosure is noted in a separate section of the memorandum. The disclosure proxy resolution asks that Gulf make public detailed information about its role in Angola. The Church group proxy resolution is relatively harmless to all involved, although as Farber said last night, if Harvard were to support the disclosure campaign it would be the first antimanagment vote of Harvard stock and thus might set a precedent...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: Farber Releases Report On Gulf Oil Investments | 3/9/1972 | See Source »

When Comdr. Arnheiter first arrives on board the Vance in January 1966, he is met by an uncertain crew that held no love for its previous commander but respected his judgment. Arnheiter seems harmless enough, but then he embarks on a series of inexplicable move which gradually convince the crew--and slowly convert the officers to a similar view--that he is really quite mad. Arnheiter spends $950 of the crew's recreation fund to buy a speedboat which, he says, will help to engage Vietcong gunboats by serving as a decoy. He has shark's teeth painted...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: The Arnheiter Affair | 3/2/1972 | See Source »

...Adaptation, the game of life. Here are your instructions: The object is to find the Security Square among all those squares on the Big Board and win the Super Bonus Card, picking up maturity and success points on the way, and running into situations which allow as much harmless social satire as possible...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Adaptation | 2/19/1972 | See Source »

...violence or serious sexuality. It is a dramatization of the past, better than The Sound of Music but not equal to Gone With the Wind. Some on the left might quarrel with its simplistic treatment of the Revolution and its causes, but the movie is basically fair, and probably harmless. In an interview with The New York Post several weeks ago, Schaffner said that he lost more weight during the filming of Nicholas and Alexandra (17 pounds) than during the making of Patton (10 pounds). Perhaps he was worried that instead of giving him an Oscar this year they will...

Author: By Leo FJ. Wilking, | Title: The Romanovs in Hollywood | 2/18/1972 | See Source »

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