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About five billion pounds of detergents are now being used annually, said Reuss. On the average, each pound contains about 40% phosphate, which does a fine job of cleaning dishes and clothes. But once flushed down the drain, it begins its environmental dirty work. Reuss has introduced a bill that would ban the manufacture and importation of detergents containing phosphate after June...
...budding poets soon wilt and retire rather than risking sanity in a quixotic struggle to capture and liberate something in themselves. Those who continue probably have no choice. Ironically, that is the only way they can survive. Meanwhile, aspiring writers are stricken with self-doubt about writing. If, as Pound wrote, "The scientists are in terror/and the European mind stops," they wonder whether they shouldn't feel slightly embarrassed penning verse. Perhaps the class of 1910 could confidently strive for greatness, but the class of 1970 no longer knows what greatness...
However, salt can also be an agent of disease and death. A single quarter-pound dose might kill a man. Even the healthy person's normal intake of about one-third ounce a day is harmful to patients with certain types of high blood pressure or heart or kidney disease for whom doctors prescribe "salt-free" (actually, low-salt) diets. Some physicians fear that the inclusion of salt in such products as baby foods may lead to an excessive taste for salt and perhaps disease later in life. One manufacturer replies that every baby must have some salt...
Lion with B.O. Breslin parades a gaggle of neo-Runyonesque caricatures, proving mainly that Damon's were pithiest. There is, for instance, 425-pound Big Jelly Catalano, who likes two girls at once and "always takes his clothes off when he eats"-not to mention Roz the Meter Maid, Tony the Indian, Joe the Wop, Beppo the Dwarf and a lion with body odor. Yet the book is funny, particularly on the sadistic Tom-and-Jerry cartoon level of violence, because the characters aren't real and nothing is really at stake but a few laughs...
Once again, the Crimson trailed 13-0 after the 126-pound bout, then captain Paul Catinella lost a 7-6 decision in the 142-pound bout and Pat Coleman was tied in the 150-pound contest to dim Harvard's hopes for its third match win of the season...