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...seem to be as immortal as they are useful. Plastic garbage bags litter Italy; Florida's discarded containers clog Bahama beaches. Each year one Kansas plant makes enough cellophane to wrap the earth with a 15-inch band 40 times; most of it becomes enduring garbage. Even getting rid of plastics can be dangerous. When polyvinyls like Saran Wrap are burned, they produce corrosive hydrochloric acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Plastic for Ecologists | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

Good question. If the Faculty wants to do something about the war, why don't they get rid of ROTC? It's being phased out, they say- phased-out murder. The Faculty says it wants to stop the killing taught in Shannon Hall. What perverted conception of academic freedom compels them to take two years to do it? To condemn the burning of a building as violence is a good example of the worst variety of shortsightedness. If burning Shannon Hall slows the American war machine a tiny bit, the flames will do a lot for Cambridge's skyline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Strike Tower of Babel | 5/7/1970 | See Source »

...human beings and we have not had them as one of our human rights and our constitutional rights as a people. We cannot let them continue to deny us this, and when they overtly attack us, we have but one alternative-to pick up a gun to get rid of the gun in the hands of the Fascist...

Author: By Wallace TERRY Ii, | Title: Getting It All Together: Part II | 5/6/1970 | See Source »

...oppose the extremism of bigotry, racism, brutality, and murder. We want peace and we understand that to get peace we're going to have to have to fight for peace to get rid of the Nixon-Agnew-Mitchell regime, the extremism of Ronald Reagan, of the Mayor Daleys, of Judge Coxes and Judge Hoffmans, and Carswells, and avaricious businessman who call on the pigs to brutalize and murder people when they peaceful go forth to demonstrate...

Author: By Wallace TERRY Ii, | Title: Getting It All Together: Part II | 5/6/1970 | See Source »

None of the students said they wanted to close down the Law School. "We're not saying get rid of exams. We're just asking the Law School to free people for antiwar activity," one said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Student Group Calls For Exam Changes For War Protest | 5/5/1970 | See Source »

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