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...Moving Silt. In How True, Griffith proposes no radical solutions for the profession's problems. He does urge that the press make itself "answerable" to critics -that it admit errors freely and fully and that it be willing to have its performance judged by independent outsiders. Specifically, he favors the concept of a news council that reviews complaints about particular stories and renders findings (such a national body, consisting of six press people and nine leaders from other professions, was formed by the Twentieth Century Fund last year, to the displeasure of some editors and publishers...
...dredging engineer, whose job it is to keep channels free and clear." He will not always succeed because "imperfection is the journalist's working climate." And newsmen are mistaken if they expect universal applause even when they do the dredging well. There are always those who like the silt...
...probably with a Dutch-West German-Yugoslav consortium. The first job of the clearers will be to rid the banks of their lethal carpet of mines, and that step alone should take a month. Then divers will go into the water to pinpoint the positions and depths of wrecks. Silt, once thought to be a major barrier to reopening, will be no problem at all; very little of it has built up during the long years of disuse...
...hour before the wet dawn of Nov. 4, 1966, the swollen Arno River sent cataracts of water sluicing through the narrow streets of Florence and deposited half a million tons of mud, silt, rotting butchers' meat, excrement and sticky black fuel oil on the city's stone and stucco. At that moment, the future of the city and its artistic heritage seemed uncertain. The water was everywhere-soaking into the fragile wood of old carvings and panel paintings, expanding its cells and cracking it, seeping up inside walls and working outward through the surface of their frescoes, causing...
...swamped 7,300,000 acres of rich farm land. At least 10% of this year's cotton crop and some of the soybean harvest were threatened. Upriver, as waters receded and mopping up began, farmers around West Alton, Mo., found nearly 10,000 acres of crops covered with silt and debris. But for the most part, the upper Mississippi was secure...