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...beach, 25 species of dead fish were found. Vast beds of seaweed, which are harvested to make Pharmaceuticals and fertilizer, were destroyed. Thousands of oil-tarred birds lay dead or dying. The Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey were threatened, as were the sands around the spectacular monastery at Mont-St.-Michel. Driven by gale winds, the oil may despoil more than 160 kilometers (100 miles) of France's ruggedly beautiful Brittany coast, and imperil the Normandy beaches farther to the east as well. By any measure, the spill was the biggest of all time and perhaps the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Disaster off the Brittany Coast | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

DIED. Lee Metcalf, 66, liberal, three-term Democratic Senator from Montana; of natural causes; in Helena, Mont. An archetypical Western populist who was respected by his senatorial peers as an orator and constitutional expert, Metcalf was a strong advocate of bills favoring consumer, environmental and labor causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 23, 1978 | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...have seen studies on highway deaths," says Jacques Couture, an athletic, bearded Quebecois of 37, who presides at the Jim Russell International Racing Drivers School, near Mont Tremblant. "Speed is only the No. 3 factor. Equipment failure is second. According to these studies, the deadliest killer is driver error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY: Gentlemen, Your Brakes | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

Brad Behrman '78, a member of CUE, said yesterday he thinks it is "doubtful" that the Faculty Council will take action on the elite concentration issue "soon enough to affect the Class of '80," which will make official concentration choices later this mont...

Author: By Gideon R.gil, | Title: CUE Unanimously Votes To Open Elite Majors | 4/15/1977 | See Source »

...time for the United States to "react in a spirit which seeks to heal the wounds of war" in East Asia, former Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) told approximately 200 people in Longfellow Hall last night...

Author: By Jaleh Poorooshasb, | Title: Mike Mansfield Suggests New East Asian Policies | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

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