Word: ramey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foster, the symphony's regular leader since 1972, makes his players key members of the drama. He cannot draw from Sopranos Evelyn Mandac (Almirena) and Noelle Rogers (Armida) the Baroque bravura he gets from Home, but Mandac is an especially lovely singer with a bright future. In Samuel Ramey (Argante), Foster has a bass baritone of extraordinary dramatic and lyric gifts, and it is easy to see why Ramey is fast filling the shoes and cape of the late Norman Treigle in Houston, at the New York City Opera and else where around the U.S. William Bender
Though environmentalists are understandably loath to say so, the cost of satisfying their demands would be unrealistically high. The Pennsylvania coal mining town of Ramey learned that lesson not long ago, when it received a stern order from the commonwealth's department of environmental resources: Stop untreated waste from flowing into nearby Little Muddy Creek and begin building a new $1.3 million sewer system. Only 80 of Ramey's 500 residents have regular jobs; the rest get by on Social Security, welfare, unemployment insurance, and other forms of Government aid. Last year the assessed valuation...
...afford anything, to be honest," protests the town's mayor, John McQuown. "I just couldn't pay," echoes one Ramey resident. Yet Pennsylvania court rulings in similar cases have held that financial hardship is not a valid excuse for polluting the waters of the commonwealth. Is the town doomed then? Not necessarily. "If Ramey can't get a bond issue underwritten, the state can do what it wants, but it is not going to get a sewer system in there," says Thomas M. Burke, a lawyer for the department of environmental resources. "We're just...
...letting him run the AEC's research program, but establishing a new division to handle the vital issue of reactor safety. Shaw argued that safety was an integral part of design. But Ray insisted: "Duplication in this case can do nothing but good." Shaw quit. As for Ramey, Ray simply did not back his reappointment to the commission when his term expired in June. These acts outraged some members of the Joint Committee when Ray presented them as fails accomplis. But other committeemen were pleased by her independence. "Dixy Lee does what she believes in, and has brought...
...With Ramey and Shaw gone, Ray was free to tackle what she considers the AEC's No. 1 problem: widespread public fear of nuclear power. She has made 13 speeches on the subject since taking office, and is organizing a series of open workshops in 28 cities for people "who are not sure of this nuclear stuff." Ray has no such doubts. She insists that "no industry is more closely regulated than the nuclear-power industry." AEC standards are so conservative, she maintains, that "when the least thing goes wrong, reactors are shut down immediately. That...