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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deterioration in American sports over the past years. "The contaminating factor in sports is the spectator, who has become the dominant force in most games. Then there's the business side of sports, the T.V. cameras, and the unhealthy pressures put upon young people to be a pro and obtain a type of manhood they think they can't get outside a sports arena...
...until threatened with court action, Carbide refused to supply the government with any information regarding its pollution. Then last April, HEW Secretary Elliot L. Richardson '41 ordered pollution at the plant reduced at a fixed schedule. Carbide ignored the first deadline last September, saying that it was impossible to obtain a low-sulphur fuel necessary to meet it, but asked the government for $5,500,000 for anti-pollution research...
...past the losing teams in the first rounds have returned tickets for the finals to the Garden. which allots some to both winners. Students shut out at Harvard can obtain tickets at Boston Garden...
...same day the consent decree was signed, John Burns was fired. Whatever the reason for his dismissal, he is now the conservationists' newest folk hero, and his crusading may have just begun. His present target, paradoxically, is the section of the 1899 Refuse Act that requires polluters to obtain permits to discharge wastes into navigable waterways. Because that rule has been widely ignored, President Nixon last month signed an executive order directing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to issue, by July, 40,000 such permits to industries whose effluents meet state and federal water-quality standards. As Burns...
Though Jelic was not interested in staying. Tom Modrak and Bob Yales were reportedly inclined to remain at Harvard if possible. It appears that they will not get the chance unless Restic is unable to obtain the men he wants...