Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other standard for swimmability that the Charles fails to meet concerns its bacterial content. The biggest single reason for the river's high bacterial content, Noss said, is that during storms the sewer systems of Boston and Cambridge overflow, flooding the river with raw sewage. There are a number of plans for over $16 million worth of new collector sewers and new treatment plants, including one for storm overflows near the B.U. Bridge which will include a huge, one-and-a-half million gallon holding tank. But the new facilities probably won't solve the problem completely...
After the firing of Archibald Cox, 3,700 of Yale's 5,000 undergraduates signed petitions demanding impeachment. A poll of Harvard Business School students showed that 61% favored resignation; 75% felt the President was acting in a "dictatorial manner." To a cheering overflow crowd at Amherst College, Historian Henry Steele Commager declared: "The history of the present Administration is the history of repeated injurious usurpations having as direct object the subversion of the Constitution and the laws of the land...
...John Norwalks who are rejected from the few fields where there are serious, organized attempts to overcome the impersonal educational atmosphere here, Harvard does provide a few alternatives. Special Studies, the tracking program in the English Department, and the joint majors program all accomodate part of the overflow from the honors concentrations...
...Parking--It is unlikely that Cambridge can absorb over a thousand tourist cars during peak summer days, especially when the municipal spaces now on the library site are lost to construction. The cars will overflow onto the city's streets, where parking spaces are already severly limited...
...California's Jesus People, who started the whole movement, are not seen on the streets much any more, but many of the earliest groups still thrive. Chuck Smith's Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, which has six touring bands, had to put up a tent for the overflow crowds, then an auditorium that holds 2,000. The Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation near Saugus has bought a 160-acre farm, a gas station, a thrift shop and a motel. Kent Philpott s ministry north of San Francisco runs a construction business and several farms, plus rehabilitation centers...