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...killing sea of oil off Southern California grew ever wider and more elusive. Though the eleven-day leak on Union Oil Company's offshore rig had been successfully plugged, its 800-sq.-mi. slick returned with each tide. And it was fed anew by a residual leak under Platform A that appeared last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Environment: The Dead Channel | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

Almost as worrisome to conservationists were the chemicals dropped from planes and boats to disperse and dissolve the slick. Botanist Michael Neushul of the University of California recalled the 1957 breakup off Baja California of the tanker Tampico, which dumped 59,000 barrels of diesel oil into the Pacific and "utterly impoverished animal life" in the area for five years. In 1967, when the Torrey Canyon-carrying crude-spilled 100,000 tons into the English Channel, 90% of the animal loss was caused by detergents used to clean up the oil. As for Santa Barbara, Neushul figures that such grazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: ENVIRONMENT: TRAGEDY IN OIL | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

Harvard came out flying at the start of the second period. Waickowski blocked a Brown shot, Eric Gustavson galloped down the floor and dropped in an 18-foot jump shot. Waickowski forced another turnover and Harvard took advantage on a slick tip-in by sophomore Dale Dover...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Fast Waickowski Moves Hoopsters To Harvard Win | 2/10/1969 | See Source »

PROMISES, PROMISES is a slick, amiable and derivative musical based on the film The Apartment. Jerry Orbach is splendid as the tall, gangling antihero, but the rhythms of Burt Bacharach's score sound rather like sporadic rifle fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books, Fiction, Nonfiction: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

PROMISES, PROMISES is a slick, amiable and derivative musical based on the film The Apartment. Jerry Orbach is splendid as the tall, gangling antihero, but the rhythms of Burt Bacharach's score sound something like sporadic rifle fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 31, 1969 | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

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