Word: metcalfe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Researchers have lately pondered the fact that aquatic organisms (fish, plankton, diatoms, insect larvae) concentrate the dissolved pollutants in their bodies. That fact led Robert Metcalf, head of the University of Illinois' zoology department, to a fascinating idea: Why not use certain insects to sop up the pollutants...
...Unless the community that we serve can rise to our support, with a charitable assist from the media and all those concerned for the city's cultural welfare, there is no hope of continuing," R. T. Metcalf, chairman of the theatre's board of directors, said yesterday...
...Metcalf admitted that if it had not been for the unexpected success of the Playhouse's current production of "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris," the Playhouse would not have been able to open at all this season...