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Near Chicago, 850 Glenview, Ill., schoolchildren spent the day planting trees to beautify the town; 200 miles to the southwest, residents of the Springfield area were completing a weeklong "trash-a-thon," aimed at cleaning up the litter along some 90 miles of local roads. Traffic was banned on part of Main Street in Ann Arbor, Mich., where 5,000 Earth Day strollers examined solar water heaters and other exhibits. In Atlanta 300 people devoured a giant 180-lb. Earth Day birthday cake-made, naturally, with no artificial ingredients...
...that Gannett has never acquired a paper it did not improve. This is testimony partly to the sorry quality of medium-sized papers in the U.S. But it is also true that Gannett has expunged the rabid right-wing excesses from a few of its papers-notably those in Springfield, Mo., and Nashville -and dramatically upgraded other properties, like the Camden (N.J.) Courier-Post. As even Morris Udall admits, "If you're going to have chain newspapers, you're not going to do much better than the kind of aggressive, community-minded, broad-based operation that Gannett...
Forced turnovers and bad passes marred Springfield's performance as the laxwomen continued their domination of play in the second half...
...Crimson's man-to-man defense confused the zone-oriented Springfield squad, which let eight more goals slide by and trailed, 13-0. The permeability of the Springfield defense showed especially when Mlezcko sparked a flurry of five goals in as many minutes at 20:30 in the second half...
Women's Lacrosse 13, Springfield College...