Word: planned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Hickel announced a long-term financing plan to help municipalities control water pollution by building up-to-date sewage plants. He has plunged into the Santa Barbara oil-leak fiasco and ruled that offshore drillers must bear unlimited liability for causing pollution and harming marine life-a big surprise from an alleged pawn of the oil companies. A year ago, Hickel was spurring exploitation of Alaska's oil-rich North Slope. Now he calls for forced-draft studies on how to "protect the fragile Arctic environment from the processes of exploitation...
...grassroots conservative reaction that elected as President Dr. Jacob A. O. Preus (rhymes with choice), head of the Synod's Concordia Seminary in Springfield, Ill. The election of Preus, a learned conservative who opposes fellowship, was seen as an implied vote of no confidence in the Harms-backed plan for fellowship with the ALC. Despite Harms' personal defeat, however, years of subtle campaigning by backers of the proposal itself paid off. When the secret ballots were counted, the resolution had passed...
Having alienated themselves from most of society's cherished institutions, radical students dedicated to their cause are now abandoning another: the summer vacation. In cities across the country they are working overtime during the hot summer months, while campuses are cool, to revolutionize society and plan future assaults on the established order. One of the top national leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society says: "For S.D.S. people, there is no summer vacation. We see ourselves working 18 hours a day forever. We're in this for a lifetime...
Activists not attracted by the call of the assembly line have focused on com munity organization projects, propagandizing and planning. In Boston, 200 radicals are attending a nine-week "Movement School," at which they are to develop a "critique of American society" and plan future tactics. Members of the Peace and Freedom Party are canvassing door to door in favor of rent control in Cambridge, where Harvard's expansion has contributed to a severe housing shortage. Other students are engaged in draft-resistance counseling, mobilizing high school youths and running newspaper and film projects...
...meant victory for critics of the cigarette, notably the Federal Communications Commission, which earlier this year threatened to order all cigarette commercials off the air waves. Both the FCC and the Federal Trade Commission promised to drop their proposals for stern regulatory action if the industry could make its plan work. Utah Democrat Frank Moss, the nonsmoking Mormon who heads the consumer subcommittee and is the leading tobacco opponent in the Senate, said happily that "the dike has been broken...