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Fighting Mad. State Senator James Waddell hailed the plant as a "noble experiment," and local businessmen foresee an economic boom. But the men on Hilton Head expect a pall of fumes and a flood of fouled water. Fighting mad, they have forged an alliance with fishermen and resort owners, who are equally worried-pollution could wipe out their livelihood. They argue that tourism alone will provide 40% of the county's income this year and that it is senseless to jeopardize an already thriving industry...
...looking toward next month's spring vacations to ease tensions. If he is forced to call police, he will win support from the professors and please the radicals by driving angry students into their camp. What he may lose is the university, a loss that would cast a pall on the immediate future of higher education in West Germany...
...This spring Mather will have a House Committee, which can work on such proposals with authority and coordinated effort. By this spring, also, a University-wide poll on the desirability of coed living will be completed. Master von Stade has placed much importance on the out-come of this pall. Finally, the exchanges at the other three Houses will provide evidence for or against the practicability of coed living at Harvard. So the unique opportunity for starting coed living at a new House is not yet lost. If no coed living plan for the University as a whole is proposed...
...quite sure what was now demanded of me, I just wandered around for some time. By six o'clock, troops had surrounded the White House, most bank windows had been broken, MPs were stationed at the major hotels to help satirized matrons into limousines, and a pall of gas was spreading haphazardly about the city. The whole affair came off as very South American. So this is what they've been warning us the universities might become, I thought. And then, coming across a book store that had also had its plate glass busted in, I knew I wanted...
...documenting Richard Nixon's electronic conquest of the nation, White is just as diligent as he was in his accounts of the two previous presidential races. However, his protagonist lacks the kind of flamboyance that fires up White's romantic mind, and as a result, a gray pall hangs over much of the book...