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...when he vetoed a bill to control the ecological damage done by strip mining for coal. The result would be a slowdown, but not a reversal, of the U.S.'s environmental programs. Pointing to progress in cleaning up the Connecticut and Hudson rivers, Ford quipped: "The salmon are back. They cough a lot, but they have reappeared...
...SCENE in which luncheon is served by Snorty and Kay, now disguised as a maid, is the funniest in the whole play. Soup is inevitably spilled, plates dropped, and strange crashes are heard from the direction of the kitchen, "Oh, that must be the salmon." McGee explains to the guests. "The cat's had it on the floor three times already." Snorty's calm, almost scholarly manner makes a nice counterpoint to all the chaotic running around, and Maxwell's subtle performance is a welcome break from the usual mugging...
...sped by backwards, but the State Troopers didn't agree. We were on the road for only ten minutes when they pulled up about two feet in back of the truck, cruising at a swift 60, and then they cut out into the other lane, passed us like a salmon might take a small waterfall and told our drivers to pull over. We all got our I.D.s checked and then we were told the tailgate had to be closed, so California went by in blackness. We made up for it with a couple of joints. Somehow the laws of thermodynamics...
...Drug Buster. Last week Governor Thomas Salmon was contemplating an extraordinary letter from Francis Murray, the Chittenden County (Burlington) prosecutor, asking him to pardon all 600 of those convicted on Lawrence's testimony. Lawrence, the prosecutor pointed out, faced up to 16 years in prison after being found guilty of turning in false arrest affidavits and giving false information to a police officer. The big drug buster apparently arrested anyone he was suspicious of, often supplying the narcotics evidence himself and claiming he had made a buy from the alleged pusher. Judges, and in a few cases even juries...
...washed up somewhere, but I never expected all this fuss," says Yallop. "I know it is the same fish because it weighs about the same, and it was bruised in exactly the same place." At week's end Thames Water Authority officials were still staunchly insisting that the salmon was an authentic denizen of the Thames...