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...John J. Lescisin...
...Robert J. Cosgrove...
...because they were necessarily faulty but because there could be substantial loss of life and property if any failed. The corps estimates that a full inspection to determine which dams need reinforcement would cost $367 million, but only $15 million is available under the 1972 law. Says Leo J. Ryan, chairman of a House environmental subcommittee: "Some of these dams are like a loaded shotgun pointed at the people downstream. There are any number of old, small dams that could give...
...Jörg Müller's The Changing Countryside (Atheneum; $9.95), is the pictorial equivalent of music-an unbound suite of seven large luminous paintings (33¾ in. by 12½ in.) that spellbind without the use of words. Though Müller is Swiss, his story, unfortunately, is universal: the gradual erosion of a natural setting by urban sprawl. Starting in the spring of 1953, with barefoot farm children in a burgeoning countryside, Artist Müller takes characters and acreage through the incursions of a railroad, the depredations of bulldozer, drill and crane, and, ultimately...
...Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Chief Justice Edward F. Hennessey of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court joined Marshall in hearing the cases...