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Compounding Penalties. The case involves a General Motors assembly plant in North Tarrytown, N.Y. For years, the plant dumped chemical wastes -spray-paint residues, metals, caustic cleaning agents-directly into the Hudson River. In 1963 the company was ordered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a treatment facility tying into a regional sewerage system. Various planning problems delayed groundbreaking until late last year. Meanwhile, the plant kept pouring its effluents into the river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Burns Case | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

While the 207,000-ton supertanker Marpessa was steaming southward past the coast of Senegal to pick up a load of crude oil from the Persian Gulf, her crewmen were routinely spray cleaning her empty oil tanks with jets of sea water. For no apparent reason, an explosion ripped through the hull, sending the brand-new ship to the bottom. Two weeks later, an oil hold of the supertanker Mactra blew up in the Mozambique Channel; next day a blast blew apart the Kong Haakon VII off Liberia. Last summer there were two more tanker explosions. Scientists and oilmen were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Exploding Supertankers | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

...selling nationally. Johnson's toughest time came two years ago, when the surge of black pride led to more natural hair styles, specifically the Afro, which severely scissored demand for straighteners and the other hair relaxors. Johnson responded by introducing Afro Sheen, a product line that includes hair spray and a "comb easy" shampoo for the natural look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Making Black Beautiful | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

...Victory to the NLF," "Fuck the OFIEA," and "Off this capitalist death trap" were written in spray can yellow, blue, green and red, and in black crayon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Area Radicals Step Up Political Activity | 11/24/1970 | See Source »

Wonderama (Syndicated) is a 13-year-old, three-hour-long, Every Bloody Sunday party, encouraging kids to every capital sin except lust. An affable man offscreen, Host Bob McAllister manically encourages kids to spray each other with whipped cream, or to play musical pies­last one to stop at a cutout target gets a faceful. Everyone in the 120-child audience receives at least half a dozen gifts­and a chance to wave at the folks back home. During the six-hour taping, the kids are given soda and ice cream (sandwiches were once dispensed, but too many kids threw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Who's Afraid of Big, Bad TV? | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

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