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...determined by the states. The new rule establishes federal standards that will limit fees in most states to the level that prevailed last January. Increases will be permitted, but only under a formula based on the consumer price index. The new regulation is expected to save about $65 million in its first year of operation and substantially more later...
...Angeles. A onetime theatrical pressagent, grade-B screenwriter ("I'm a lot prouder of some of the mortgages I've written"), and scriptwriter for radio's Gangbusters, Lytton used Broadway promotional techniques to build his Los Angeles-based Lytton Financial Corp. into a $700 million business. Overextension and the collapse of the California housing boom started his downfall in the mid-'60s, and creditors moved in to depose him in April 1968. "Money," he once said, "can be merchandised just like girlie shows," and in recent months he was contemplating a fresh start with...
...which it is aimed, DDT goes on performing its lethal work, washing from fields into rivers, lingering on the leaves of trees, floating about in the atmosphere for years-and contaminating everything it touches. There are some scientists who estimate that as much as two-thirds of the 1.5 million tons of DDT produced by man may still be adrift...
...biological magnification" as it makes its way up the food chain. A typical case of this kind of metabolic mayhem occurred in Long Island Sound. After some mosquito-infested marshes were sprayed, the DDT was found in the nearby water in a "safe" concentration of .000003 parts per million. Nonetheless, the DDT quickly accumulated in more concentrated form...
...These small fish, in turn, were devoured by larger fish with yet another increase in DDT concentration (2.0 ppm). By the time the chemical had passed into the bodies of such fish-eating birds as cormorants, mergansers and ospreys its concentration (25 ppm) had increased an astounding 10 million times over the original amount (see diagram...