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...coeds and a county civil-defense director. Ann Arbor's Democratic Congressman Weston E. Vivian called for a Defense Department investigation of the unearthly goings-on. Michigan's Gerald Ford, House Republican leader, suggested a congressional inquiry. Air Force investigators donned hip boots to slog through Michigan marshland...
...construction of the storm water chlorination chamber might not have been necessary if another project "to do something" with the river had been successful. The Charles was originally a tidal river; twice a day it overflowed its banks from Boston to Watertown, covering marshland, and twice a day it shrank leaving ugly mud flats...
...cause there is always the need of those from whom the land is being saved. Steel manufacturers, for example, have discovered that the most efficient sites for their plants are near water transportation. One such location is the Indiana Dunes, a strip of glacier-formed beach, sand dunes and marshland running along Indiana's Lake Michigan coast from Gary to Michigan City. For 50 years conservationists have seethed as the dunes have been bitten away by steel companies. This year the Senate finally passed a compromise bill (House action is pending) incorporating ten unspoiled miles into a federal park...
...thing to upstate New York's Chautauqua Lake, the famous site of open-air lectures and summer artistry. In Appalachia, strip miners have ravaged the hills for ore and left behind a gutted horizon that, says one native, "makes my stomach turn." Thousands of acres of Atlantic coast marshland, home of waterfowl and spawning ground for oysters and clams, are being filled in by marina-minded resort builders...
...indeed a modest place. It was started in 1946 as an extension division of the state's higher education system to handle returning veterans who could not get into the established universities. Its site was Vanport, the sprawling federal housing development built for wartime workers on low marshland near the Columbia River. "The U by the slough," it was called. Two years later, the campus was washed into the river by a flood; only the students and 92 books were salvaged. Classes were temporarily housed in the abandoned downtown Portland administration buildings of the Oregon shipyards...