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Last week the wounded environmentalists lamely struggled to explain their polluted portfolios. Argued E.D.F.'s Berkeley director, Tom Graff: "We can't invest in companies doing environmentally beneficial things, companies in solar energy or scrap iron, for example. If we did, it would look like we were promoting our economic interest when we took a stand on an issue." Added Colburn Wilbur, executive secretary of the Sierra Club Foundation: "Every time we drive, fly or eat we are helping the polluters. We don't have a pure investment portfolio. I don't think we could...
...little interest in the public good. If the lower class does not care about the future then it will be immune to the deterrent factors of crime control and will riot and steal simply because the self-interest of its culture dictates such actions. Banfield tells us to scrap plans to build better schools or houses, or allocate more welfare for the lower classes because lower-class culture can't be changed by wasteful alterations in society or environment, no matter how large-scale. Possibly one way we can change the effects of lower-class culture, Banfield postulates...
Died. Clint ("Scrap Iron") Courtney, 48, pugnacious American League catcher of the 1950s and early 1960s; of an apparent heart attack; in Rochester, while on the road with the minor-league Richmond Braves, which he had managed since 1973. For more than a decade, Courtney played with six clubs, compiling a record of near-flawless fielding and clutch hitting. A relentless belligerence earned him his nickname and triggered some of baseball's most violent brouhahas, notably a game-stopping 1953 free-for-all at Busch Stadium that began when Courtney, then playing for the old St. Louis Browns, spiked...
...Harvard Square, UFW backers this year fought for the grape-pickers on a scrap of pavement outside the Harvard Provisions...
...THING ABOUT the three heavies in this scandal is that they all have a precious scrap of integrity that they are anxious to protect with every manipulative bone in their bodies. Kearns has a tenured chair on the line. Glikes has a fine editorial reputation at stake, and Goodwin must fear his betrayal as the ogre. When you call them up, they talk a lot, to attempt to preserve that patch of integrity...