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...find out what it is like to live in the same neighborhood with toxic wastes, Associate Editor Kurt Andersen visited three communities with similar concerns but profoundly different circumstances. Times Beach, contaminated years ago, is now a Missouri ghost town; Holbrook, Mass., is discovering that it has a serious problem, but perhaps not a catastrophe; in Casmalia, Calif., toxins arrive each day at a modern treatment site, producing annoying fumes and fears about the future. People from all three places share chronic anxiety. Are they sick? Will they become sick? In all three there is anger, at businesses, at government...
...conceived in Akron, when Bill Wilson, a stockbroker suffering from an uncontrollable drinking problem, got in touch with Surgeon Robert Holbrook Smith, a total stranger and also an alcoholic. Wilson's desperate idea: apply the buddy system to the problem of quitting. Since then A.A. has grown steadily. Participation in the organization, which defines itself simply as "a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism," has doubled over the past ten years. Explains Cathleen Willis, director of Alcoholics...
...become a self-made millionaire, a three term senator and Chairman of the Senate's powerful Foreign Relations Committee. With his gray-blonde hair, athletic physique and patrician demeanor, Percy looks not only far younger than his 65 years but also like every screen politician played by Hal Holbrook or Gregory Peck. In the past, Republican Party regulars have mentioned Percy as a possible Presidential or vice-presidential candidate...
...according to Nancy L. Holbrook, a resident of Eastman and wife of Cary! F. Holbrook, Dartmouth '20, "about 50 percent of the Eastman residents are upset...
...show is more than improve. More than half the material, in fact, is made up of original skills and songs written by members of the group--most of them by Holbrook and George Melrod '82, a former Lampoon editor, who gave the humorous Ivy oration at Class Day last spring. These include takeoffs on TV commercials and news shows and new wave songs...