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...come a long way since the summer of 1970 and "Spill the Wine." They've matured both as musicians and composers, and with "All Day Music" they've made a superb musical statement...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee iii, | Title: The Ravages of War | 2/12/1972 | See Source »

...often happens with social problems in the U.S., the courts have to put a price tag on values that are hard to measure. The latest decision has come from a Santa Barbara court, where Judge Morton L. Barker ruled that the oil companies responsible for the oil spill-Union Oil, Mobil, Texaco and Gulf-should each pay $500 in criminal penalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Costs of an Oil Spill | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

Seven other proposals were suggested by the Freshman Council in its meeting on Monday night. All propose various methods of handling the predicted influx of freshmen, either by letting Harvard freshmen spill into the Radcliffe Houses, equalizing the male-female ratio in all freshman housing, or setting up a special women's dormitory in the Yard...

Author: By Susan F. Kinsley, | Title: Council Airs New Housing Proposal | 12/8/1971 | See Source »

...only about 20 commercial harbors in the world deep enough to serve the Nisseki Maru, a new Japanese behemoth that stretches 1,139 ft. long, carries almost 3,000,000 bbl. of crude oil and draws 89 ft. of water. Such monster tankers -each representing a potentially catastrophic oil spill-pump their cargoes into oil depots at the deep ports. Then smaller vessels take the oil to final destinations along the coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Good Ideas | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

...Homo technicus releases between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 tons of polluting petroleum products every year to float on the seas' sensitive surface. Up to 1.8 million tons come from automobile exhaust emissions which rise into the atmosphere and eventually precipitate onto the ocean surface. Tankers spill another million. The world's polluted rivers spew out the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Dying Oceans, Poisoned Seas | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

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