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...Adams was like a Renaissance Florentineacademy," former resident James E. Maraniss '66says. "It was a place where you were anintellectual and an aesthete. However, there wasalso a slight aura of decadence there...
...Experts and other gear came from Alaska and Seattle. Mexico was asked to send a huge oil-gobbling skimmer. And while the Rotterdam firm hired Texas boats and seamen to help out, a French company, which owned the oil cargo, recruited cleanup crews in Louisiana. With considerable understatement, Linda Maraniss, regional director of the Center for Marine Conservation, observed, "There was a general confusion about where the equipment was and who was in charge...
When Linda Maraniss visited the Texas Gulf Coast four years ago, she expected to see pristine sand and water. Instead, she found rotting garbage, old diapers and discarded furniture. Determined to do something about the situation, Maraniss returned to Austin, where she serves as regional director of the Washington-based Center for Marine Conservation, and organized the first Texas Coastal Cleanup. It has since become an annual event; last fall more than 8,000 people bagged 158 tons of trash. And 24 other states now hold their own cleanups...
...Maraniss, 40, who worries about the damage that beach litter does to marine life, promotes her cause at churches, schools, clubs and conferences. Her message seems to be getting through. At least one oil company has banned Styrofoam cups on its drilling rigs in the Gulf. And next year Texas will require codes on plastic bottles to identify the type of material they are made of, a measure that will make recycling easier...
...Company G: H. S. Maraniss, B. C. Sculley...