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...perhaps known best for his work in using microbes to produce disease-fighting drugs, points out that many of the areas weekend backpackers and others consider so beautiful resulted from degradation of the environment. The sere hills of Greece were produced by deforestation and erosion; the Downs of England owe their lushness to the introduction of sheep grazing; the orchards and fields of New England are the creation of civilization. "Humanized environments," writes Dubos, "give us confidence because nature has been reduced to the human scale, but the wilderness in whatever form almost compels us to measure ourselves against...
...local Democratic Ward Committee will hold its organizational meeting at Harvard for the first time tomorrow night, in recognition "of the fact that we owe something to the Harvard community and students," George Goverman, former chairman of the committee, said yesterday...
...Justice Department has a roster of some 18,000 federal cons who, all told, owe about $80 million in fines and bail bond forfeitures. Some of the deadbeats, among them many Prohibition moonshiners, are dead; others are in prison, untraceable, or truly too poor to pay (tightlipped Watergate Burglar G. Gordon Liddy, for example, has paid only $5,051 of his $40,000 fine, and Justice considers his pleas of poverty to be genuine). Yet the Department says that there are some 3,500 debtors who can claim no excuses. Their fines total about $20 million...
...owe quite a debt to the coaches who first began experimenting with the wide influx of ideas now common practice in my sport. The massive yardage and major stroke adjustments I thought peculiar years ago make even my high school kids capable of times once reserved for only the best," Oyakawa said from his Cincinnati home...
...current inflation has been largely fueled on credit (as has U.S. prosperity). Collectively, Americans owe $150 billion in commercial bank loans, $115 billion in car loans and $29 billion on bank credit cards. Groping for new weapons to fight inflation, the Administration is taking a look at whether credit controls will help. The prospects are not good...