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...went into effect last July. Scott picked his first target. "I sent a team of our guys up to Lake County to find out why the Lake Michigan beaches were being closed. The first man to check the water supply passed out. The second man threw up. The North Shore Sanitary District was pouring raw sewage right into the lake. This was what our kids were swimming in!" He sued the district, and then moved against the lakeside's big steelmakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Prosecuting Pollution | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

Last Saturday was another beautiful sunny day. About 250 of us gathered at Waller Creek to plant some trees, clean the place up and shore up the banks with rocks and logs. I only stayed a couple of hours, but it was really nice. I worked hard carrying rocks, and there were lots of apples, oranges, and singing. We even built a barbecue...

Author: By Larry Grisham, | Title: Administrators vs. Trees at the University of Texas | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

...Skecter Davis foresaw it all. Today is the last time you will read my proclamations, and it is indeed, the end of the world. Why do the birds keep on singing? Why does the sea rush to shore? I may have often advised you incorrectly, but I have been right some of the time, and who can blame me for predicting Harvard over Brown? Even the four sports writers for the Brown Daily Herald picked the Cantabs, as they call John Yovicsin's boys. And as long as we've got space to fill, I might as well make four...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 11/22/1969 | See Source »

...home, Marcos hopes to continue his public works program, rein in the island's growing lawlessness, curb its widespread corruption and lower the high birth rate, which is adding 1,300,000 people each year to the 38 million population. He must also shore up a shaky economy, possibly by devaluing the peso. Because funds are running out, Marcos will become the first allied president to pull forces out of Viet Nam. In December, he intends to bring home the 1,500-man Philippine civic-action group. He will put the men to work in the impoverished central Luzon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Victory for Marcos | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...sailors are now considering the Medford shore of the Mystic as well as a site on the Charles, Woodworth said. The proposed facility would cost $175,000. About one-third of that sum has already been pledged to the club, he said...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Harvard Yacht Club Needs Home; One Mystic River Site Scrubbed | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

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