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DIED. Edwin Denby, 80, America's finest dance critic (Looking at the Dance), whose meticulous analytical skills were gloriously partnered by his vivid, poetic language; by his own hand, after a long illness; in Searsport, Me. Educated at Harvard and the Vienna University, Denby wrote for the New York Herald Tribune during World War II and went on to become the foremost critic of classical American ballet, reserving his highest praise for the work of Martha Graham, Jerome Robbins and especially George Balanchine...
Daniel F. Ford '70, executive director of the Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists, spoke in Searsport, Me., last week in an effort to publicize the dangers of the nuclear power plant...
Ford was invited to Searsport by "Safe Power for Maine," a local citizens' group which hopes to publicize the nuclear power issue throughout the state, and to resist plans by Central Maine Power Co. to build a plant on Sear's island in Penobscot...
Ford held his Thursday press conference at the downtown ice cream parlor, the "unofficial town hall" of Searsport, Hollander said. "It's the best thing that ever happened to Searsport," one citizen said...
Maine's Environmental Improvement Commission, an agency charged with approving all big developments in the state, last week turned down a proposal for a $150 million oil refinery in Searsport, a small town at the head of Penobscot Bay. After five months of deliberations, the commission concluded that: the refinery would lack the financial and technical ability to meet state air-and water-pollution control standards, the advent of supertankers would mean potential oil spillage, and the new refinery would not "fit harmoniously into the natural environment" of the ruggedly beautiful bay area...