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...turn out in force to share in its bounty. But this year is different. New York State authorities have already closed the river to commercial fishing for striped bass, eels and several other species. Now, fish and game officials fear they may also have to forbid fishing for the roe-laden shad that are just making their appearance in the Hudson. Reason: the river is polluted with a particularly persistent and dangerous class of chemical compounds called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. Worse, despite remedial action by General Electric Co., the principal polluter, the Hudson is likely to be contaminated...
...court in recent years has been expanding the right to privacy in sexual matters, and sodomy laws seemed a plausible next target. American Civil Liberties Union lawyers for John Doe and Robert Roe, two anonymous homosexuals, decided to challenge the Virginia statute before a Richmond three-judge federal panel, though the two had not been charged with any offense...
...since he was nominated for Vice President in October 1973. Most of the rise came from increased valuations of their unmortgaged houses in Alexandria, Va., and Vail, Colo. Their small stockholdings (135 shares of Central Telephone of Illinois and 72 shares of a mutual fund, Stein Roe & Farnham Balanced Fund) have fallen in the past two years, to a value of $3,942. The President holds only $1,239 in bank accounts...
...miscellaneous jottings and parodies are as hilarious as Love and Death. Allen offers a menagerie of mythical beasts: the Great Roe has "the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion." "The Whore of Mensa" wittily plays with the idea of a brothel for intellectual entertainment. The madam has a master's degree in comparative literature; for a price, a curvaceous Vassar student can be had for an hour's chat about Herman Melville; "symbolism is extra...
Last Thursday and Friday, Homans spent hours patiently leading his client through a painstaking description of medical procedure and the treatment of the 17-year old woman, whom Homans protected by dubbing "Alice Roe." Edelin at first appeared nervous or perturbed, but he is a verbal man and responded with lengthy and coherent answers. Alternately furrowing his brow, gazing down at the linoleum floor, or staring sidelong out through a window, Edelin usually paused before answering questions and displayed a calm bemusement when his attorney, the court typist, or the judge stumbled on his scientific terms. He usually called...