Word: shores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plan for restructuring University decision-making. It created a body of students and Faculty to advise President Pusey in such crises as the one he faced Wednesday night. This 68-man Duma, which includes no members of SDS or Afro, was created in a transparent effort to shore up the C0orporation's weakening image among campus moderates, and to legitimize the President's reactions to future crises...
LIKE HEP! (NBC. 9-10 p.m.). Dinah Shore is back for a variety special with Guests Lucille Ball, Rowan and Martin, and Diana Ross without the Supremes...
...chemicals that were used to dissolve and distribute the slick were deadly to sea life. Carl Hubbs, marine biology professor emeritus at La Jolla's Scripps Institution, predicted "a complete destruction of life in the intertidal regions along the shore for 20 miles, and considerable destruction for as many as 50 miles." As if in confirmation, the bodies of six seals floated onto Santa Barbara beaches. Autopsies performed on one of three dead dolphins showed that its blowhole had been clogged with oil, causing massive lung hemorrhages...
California's attorney general, meanwhile, was preparing two suits for over $100 million each against the Federal Government and Union Oil for damage to wildlife and the shore line. Private suits, such as the one filed in Santa Barbara Superior Court for over $1 billion, may well be joined with the state action...
...Adaptation, it, too, is richly comic and McNally's best play to date. At an antiseptically bleak Army induction center, a potential draftee (James Coco) appears for his physical examination. He is fortyish, fat, balding, and obviously the victim of some computer error. Nonetheless, his examiner (Elaine Shore), a squat female sergeant of stony mien and rigid devotion to the Army manual, proceeds with the examination. In a sequence of mounting hilarity, the thoroughly discomfited Coco is forced to strip down. The apex of comic modesty is reached when Coco tries to avoid total exposure by draping himself...