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Paint is not an unfamiliar accompaniment for Pre-Game festivities. The long-suffering John Harvard has doubtless turned blue at least once this week, and crimson spray paint has also been known to get a workout at this time of year...
...showcase of Sandinista popularity is Barrio Riguero (pop. 11,000), an eastern slum neighborhood of Managua that was the scene of serious street fighting against Somoza. Spray-painted revolutionary slogans adorn virtually every ramshackle wall. Pigs root through street trash, and mothers bathe squealing infants in concrete laundry sinks in cramped backyards. A notable change in the landscape, however, is a tiny, spotless health post in the district. In four modest examining rooms, crisply attired nurses provide basic diagnostic and preventive care for anyone who wants it, free of charge...
...free lunch, several Harvard students have given one morning this fall to researchers testing the effectiveness of nasal spray insulin for diabetics...
Letting the plots alone, however, was a local issue of some measure a year or so ago. As blithely as they would spray profanities on the side of a subway train, vandals were desecrating the graves. "In New York City," wrote New York Lawyer William J. Dean, "we need police officers to protect even the dead." What the city did, one year ago, was to put inmates on Hart Island to care for and look out for the place. Before then, the inmates had been ferried to the island for the burying, then ferried back to prison at night...
Some states are reluctant to use the herbicide as an aerial spray because of the chance that it will drift, contaminating nearby crops and livestock. Federal officials claim that the isolation of national forest lands, plus the | containment factor provided by a helicopter's downdraft, minimizes that risk. Others disagree. Says Jay Feldman, head of the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides: "There is no aerial application that doesn't involve drift...