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...White House that the country could run it self and that he was going to devote himself to the most important issue of man kind, as he saw it- the issue of war and peace. He pretty well kept his promise, ignoring domestic matters. That indifference, of course, helped spawn Watergate...
...into what may be the cleanest industrial river in the world. Last month, for the first time in 141 years, an 8-lb. 4-oz. adult female salmon was fished up by workers from the screens of a London power station. Presumably, it had migrated up the river to spawn in the now pristine waters. The prize was solemnly taken to the Natural History Museum, which declared it a genuine dead salmon, and scientists from the Ministry of Agriculture dutifully lent their own support to the finding. The discovery of the salmon?and its encouraging implications for the Thames?...
Some fisheries experts are putting great faith in aquaculture, or sea farming. In Washington, Biologist Jon Lindbergh, son of the aviator, is pioneering in the farming of salmon. After the fish come home to spawn, their eggs are collected and hatched in incubators. The fry are then raised until they are large enough to be kept in offshore pens for harvesting. On St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Lamont-Doherty scientists have successfully grown oysters, clams and scallops in artificial ponds, using nutrient-rich water piped in from the depths of the Caribbean...
...ready to blame the S.L.A. for the transformation of Patty Hearst from socialite liberal to violent radical within a few short weeks, then society cannot escape its responsibility for the creation of the S.L.A. Not only do the deplorable social conditions that spawn this kind of group continue to exist, but now, I fear, it is only a matter of time until we will be humming The Ballad of Cinque over our morning coffee...
...family on the tapes that the S.L.A. periodically released. An escaped convict and a reputed onetime police informer, DeFreeze took part at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville in the activities of the Black Cultural Association, an organization that attracted a few embittered whites and eventually was to help spawn the S.L.A...