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...like to clean up the Charles," Richard R. Noss '72, assistant sanitary engineer at the Metropolitan District Commission, explained recently. "But it's very hard to get a nice coherent administrative machine to do it, and it's sort of an economic problem...
There are a number of different sources for the pollutants in the Charles, Noss said. Surprisingly enough, industrial polluters play a comparatively minor role--at least according to most government officials. Considerable amounts of industrial pollution, some of it illicit or illegal, apparently continues. One company is still dumping waste cyanide in the river, two years after the MDC was notified, according to the Globe. The Cott Beverage Company dumps waste soda pop, its contents high in sugar, a highly concentrated polluter, into the river. There are other cases too. But officially at least, these things aren't most important...
...changed because the Science Museum is on top of it. The dam lets sea water leak into the Charles Basin, where it settles to the bottom because it is denser than fresh water, slowing down the water's circulation and helping to stratify the Basin. "Eventually," Noss said, "there's a layer so dense that normal river current just flows over it and it's not freshened, so to speak, by the fresh water...
...institute has taken its semantics argument into court in Lincoln, Neb., aiming to enjoin General Mills from advertising its Chipos potato snacks as "newfashioned potato chips." The institute also intends to sue Procter & Gamble for advertising its potato Pringle's as "newfangled potato chips." Harvey Noss Sr., executive vice president of the institute, complains that both companies "are trying to capitalize on the good name of the potato chip, which has been built up over 100 years...
...half-dozen Engineers who beat Harvard's first man, Huna Rosenfeld in that meet, four will be out on the starting line this afternoon: Renze, Noss, Jablonski and Knopp. Holy Cross is considered to be considerably less potent, with O'Leary, second in that same five-team meet last year, the only threat. The Varsity will run 41/4 miles today, the Freshman...