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Other professors in HCO have criticized problems in CFA's setup besides the director's workload. Marc Davis, assistant professor of Astronomy, said HCO has "declined substantially" since the merger. He added that stringent rules about research eligibility imposed by the Faculty, to which HCO but not SAO members are subject, have caused many scientists to shift to the SAO payroll, taking grant monies with them...
Vance is even more concerned about the future. He fears that the ground water beneath the sandy soil has been polluted, and this will show up later in wells. "It's a perfect setup," he says. "We think what they did with some of the chemicals was just pour 'em out on the ground. Glub, glub, glub." When state and local officials failed to get results, the federal EPA declared a water emergency and took over the cleanup chore. So far, it has spent nearly $1 million and estimates that complete removal of all hazardous wastes...
...became a pageant of sleepless nights and hectic days, hot rumors and cold coffee, convention-floor traffic jams, tired feet and writer's cramp. TIME was blessed with a spacious workroom only a few steps from the floor of Detroit's Joe Louis Arena ("The best convention setup I've seen," said Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate). Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin and his staff directed photographers to the scene of the moment's action by two-way radio. TIME was able to station photographers at the hotel suites of Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Gerald Ford...
...best comedy is based on a futile lashing out against misery, often sexual and always social. "Comedy is essentially mood, not a series of one-liners," Dangerfield says. "Every joke is a complete story." The way he tells one, the audience can often see a whole life in a setup, and a fate in a punch line. "During sex my wife wants to talk to me," he confesses, then adds: "The other night she called me from a hotel...
This is the sort of setup that tempts jealous gods and novelists. What will it be this time: brain tumor? Hodgkin's disease? coronary bypass? Segal has something more imaginative in mind. In 1968 Husband Bob attended a conference in the south of France. The country was gripped by unrest, and he managed to get his head in the way of a policeman's cosh. First aid was administered by a beautiful female physician who then prescribed house calls. What patient could resist such doctor's orders...