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...Washington, Sherman R. Knapp, president of the Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc., denounced "sudden hysteria" over the environmental impact of nuclear power plants. While conceding that the nation's 17 existing "nukes" discharge heat (he said low-level radiation is under control), Knapp declared that "there is not a single case of thermal emission seriously damaging the ecology." He particularly decried conservationists' lawsuits that block the growth of nuclear plants. Those who hinder power generation, Knapp said, only guarantee "ever darkening skies and diminishing amounts of fossil fuel resources-or an even more hazardous environmental threat, insufficient electricity...
...Three Regatta, also known as the Knapp Cup, is a one-division team race in which each college enters three two-man crews. "This necessarily introduces team tactics, rarely seen in intercollegiate sailing," sailor Doug Allen said...
...Angeles meeting with the suspicious, secretive industrialist Howard Hughes. Through Skouras, Hughes has leaked his intention of selling his enormous holdings to devote the proceeds to medical research. Rockefeller, philanthropist and president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and Zeckendorf at that time, the extraordinarily successful head of the Webb & Knapp real estate empire, have come out from New York...
Major in Real Estate. Immodesty becomes few men as well as it does Zeckendorf. Apart from the tangle of overextensions and bad luck that resulted in the collapse of Webb & Knapp in 1965, Zeckendorf seems to have little to be modest about. The son of a Long Island shoe manufacturer, he dropped out of high school, but entered college after attending a cram school and completing 16 regents' exams in one week. In 1925, after three years of parties and football, he dropped college to major in real estate...
James S. Donnelly, attorney for the defense, said that "the probation sentences were unusually long for the offense." Peter H. Knapp, a teaching assistant, and John Levinson '73 received three year probations. Van R. McGec '71, Lowry Hemphill '72, and Ellen J. Messing '72 received two year probations. John Berman '70 received a one year probation...