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...have lost all feeling for nature and the quality of life. Even so, the issue now attracts young and old, farmers, city dwellers and suburban housewives, scientists, industrialists and blue-collar workers. They know pollution well. It is as close as the water tap, the car-clogged streets and junk-filled landscape?their country's visible decay, America the Ugly...
...result of massive production is massive filth. Every year, Americans junk seven million cars, 100 million tires, 20 million tons of paper, 28 billion bottles and 48 billion cans. Just to collect the garbage costs $2.8 billion a year. The U.S. also produces almost 50% of the world's industrial pollution. Every year, U.S. plants discard 165 million tons of solid waste and gush 172 million tons of smoke and fumes into the air. Moreover, chemicals have replaced manure as fertilizers, while vast cattle feedlots have moved closer to cities. Result: animal wastes now pollute drinking water and pose...
...lives conservatively for a man who earns more than $100,000. In his spare time, he reads (lately Galbraith's Ambassador's Journal and Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich), watches news and sports on TV ("85% of the rest is junk"). Also, "I talk to my wife"-Lorraine Perigord, his third, an accomplished painter whom he married in 1955. Mike has a son by his first marriage, Chris, 22, who was a top reporter at the Harvard University radio station but went into newspapering and now covers city hall for the Boston...
...sophomore who played superbly on at 0-14-1 freshman squad last year. He is as tough a goaltender as Harvard will face all season if he plays up to his capability, but last Saturday he was beaten inexcusably three times. Clearly, he has a capability for letting junk into the net, and Harvard's forwards should provide enough shots to test that capability...
...Ford said that auto businesses are being called upon to fight inflation, aid underdeveloped countries, improve rapid transit, and dispose of junk cars. "There is one reason why everyone expects more from us than everyone else." Ford explained. "We are victims of our own success...