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...entire year's production of young salmon in the Miramichi River. In this process, rain washes the DDT off the ground and into the plankton of lakes and streams. Fish eat the DDT-tainted plankton; the pesticide becomes concentrated in their bodies, and the original dose ultimately reaches multifold strength in fish-eating birds, which then often die or stop reproducing. DDT is almost certainly to blame for the alarming decrease in New England's once flourishing peregrine falcons, northern red-shouldered hawks and black-crowned night herons...
...dangers of the SCAB's powers are multifold and its benefits to internal security are imperceptible. As the courts have already held in the case of the Communist Party itself, the McCarran Act is a patent violation of the Fifth Amendment. This logic clearly should protect any organization or any individuals that the SACB might order to register...
When Hanford retired from the Dean's office, Paul H. Buck, then Provost of the University, remarked, "Above all, he will be remembered as a humane counselor of youth--a man who gave understanding and endless hours to multifold problems of individual students...
...last hours before the deadline, officials were far from certain of their pre-enrollment figures and names. Last-minute dischargees, for example, threaten to swell the already overcrowded ranks and create more problems for a staff that has been increasingly harassed in recent weeks by the multifold difficulties of reconversion...
...fighting in a common cause. Secondly, the mixed regiment has been proposed as a purely voluntary group. Those men who have not yet grown out of their natural racial prejudices will not be forced to join. Any difficulties the Army may encounter in organizing such a unit will find multifold compensation in the increased morale of all the nation's races. The equitability of this scheme can best be summed up in the words of Professor Alonzo Myers of New York University, "a man who is good enough to fight for me is good enough to fight with...