Word: ridgeway
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...years the Interstate Sanitation Commission had declared that the waters of Raritan Bay, a sizable hunk of New York Harbor, were fit for swimming, boating and fishing. When the New Republic's new reporter, James Ridgeway, took a look at Raritan in 1963, he came to an opposite conclusion. "Not unlike the environs of the River Styx," he wrote, "a foul-smelling sewer feeds the accumulated filth from 1,200,000 people into this bay every 24 hours. This mass of putrefaction oozes about New Jersey and Staten Island shores for several days, washing the beaches with quantities...
Respect from His Targets. Ridgeway was not exaggerating, but he had little hope that his indignant article would have any effect. The U.S. Public Health Service, he pointed out, lacked the necessary muscle to enforce a cleanup; New York and New Jersey, he argued, would not want to risk scaring off industry by enforcing the necessary antipollution controls. What was needed, he said, was a new federal agency reporting directly to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...privately financed. The Tragic View. Like Columbia's Double Discovery, the projects pluck kids out of stifling home environments, plop them down amidst such relative grandeur as the ivy-covered arches of Yale's Divinity School or the modernity of Western Washington State College's new Ridgeway Dormitory complex. "Why, this is a brand-new building!" cried one girl at Western Washington. "I thought you'd put us somewhere where it wouldn't matter if we wrecked things!" They live with college-age counselors, take rigorous academic instruction that ranges, as at Yale, from remedial...
Madame Bandaranaike whizzed through her constituency in a black Mercedes, always accompanied by a cheerleader who helped with the applause. She was usually clad in a blue sari (her party color), and spoke from platforms adorned with a picture of her husband, the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, who was assassinated by a Buddhist monk in 1959. Though she no longer wept in public when recalling her husband, Madame was still campaigning in his memory, promising to follow his policies, which "stood for the middle path in politics." She argued that "the cooperation of the Marxists...
Politics are normally wild in Ceylon. Last week they were even wilder than usual. The world's only woman head of government, Mrs. Solomen West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, who has ruled Ceylon since 1960, when her husband was assassinated, felt upset when her election speech on the government-controlled radio was followed by the playing of Beethoven's funereal "Pathétique" Sonata. The radio director responsible was sent on "compulsory leave," with no reasons given. The opposition cracked that "classical music was undoubtedly too good a sequel" to Mrs. Bandaranaike's oratory, but jittery disk jockeys...