Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...district's difficulties yield to the dramatic plan approach so easily. Even the most efficient treatment plant faces the problem of "sludge disposal"--what to do with the stuff that is taken out of sewage being treated. The conventional approach has been to deposit the good in what are euphemistically called "sanitary lagoons,"but these are understandably unpopular with the lucky ones who live nearby...
...sludge dilemma is Bacon's inability to clean any doorsteps except his own. He points with great pride to the district's record of not adding a drop of pollution in recent years to Lake Michigan, but ten blocks above the district's northern border sits a treatment plant which daily dumps half-cleaned sewage into the lake. And in Gary, Indiana the huge U.S. Steel plant continues to empty its industrial wastes. U.S. Steel has been ordered to stop by the end of 1968, but Bacon doesn't think the date can stand up in court. Last summer, millions...
...scheduled address by Daniel Patrick Moynihan at a policy meeting of their national board in Washington last week. Yet Urbanologist Moynihan (TIME cover, July 28) is a member of the board and had a proper voice at the meeting. In keeping with his maverick style, he managed to plant some well-honed darts in sundry sensitive zones of the liberal conscience. Items...
...disease-resistant and beautiful. Their efforts have been fruitless so far, probably because Siberian elm cells have only half the number of heredity-bearing chromosomes found in the cells of their American cousins. To make the elms compatible, two retired Department of Agriculture scientists, Geneticist Haig Dermen, 71, and Plant Pathologist Curtis May, 70, decided to experiment with colchicine-an antigout drug that has a peculiar effect on the division of plant cells...
Voluntarily continuing their research at the Agriculture Department's Beltsville, Md., Plant Industry Station-where they are affectionately called "wocs" for "without cost"-Dermen and May patiently placed colchicine on each new bud of Siberian elm seedlings, pruned off leaves and twigs that had normal chromosome counts, and rooted double-chromosome shoots until they had developed plants with only double-chromosome cells. A dozen of these tailored plants, each 15 in. high, were recently shipped to the department's Delaware, Ohio, research station, where they will be raised until they flower and then mated with American elms. That...