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...conviction, they want to ban liquor from the family quarters, that is no one's business but their own. To turn the rest of the White House into a dry zone, however, is no more proper than would be a Jewish President's banning of pork and shellfish from the White House menu. Daniel F. Goldman Baltimore
...long-term damage seems to have resulted from the Torrey Canyon disaster; indeed, the most serious effects on marine organisms have been blamed not on the oil but on the detergents used to disperse it. Spills closer to shore can have much more dramatic effects. Large numbers of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and marine worms were killed almost immediately when a barge capsized and spilled over 200,000 gal. of oil into Buzzards Bay, off Falmouth, Mass., in 1969. Eighteen months later, scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reported that the oil was still spreading along the bottom...
...state of Maryland is famous for crabs. But those succulent little shellfish were not what the Harvard heavyweight crew was served this weekend when the Crimson traveled to Annapolis to take on a menu of Navy and Penn oarsmen...
...have been hospitalized. More victims of this environmental disaster may yet be discovered. For 16 months before it was closed last July, Life Science sent its toxic wastes through the Hopewell sewage treatment system and into the James River, one of the area's sources of fish and shellfish...
...Life Science plant was promptly closed down. Because traces of Kepone have been found in fish and shellfish from the James, authorities have closed the river-and its tributaries-from Richmond to Chesapeake Bay to fishermen. They are also keeping a watchful eye on the families of former Life Science employees; all of them were exposed to Kepone dust brought into their homes in the workers' clothing. Gilbert's wife Jan, 33, was recently hospitalized for liver and spleen problems, and although the Gilberts' daughter seems free of symptoms, the couple's two boys have both...