Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After an hour of official briefing and an hour of unofficial panel analysis, many correspondents remained unsated. For them there was still perhaps the oldest method of probing the Vatican, a method used by diplomats, spies and merchants long before there were newspapers: taking a cleric to dinner. At such restaurants as Romolo's, where Raphael is supposed to have found his model for The Baker's Daughter, or Galeassi's, which also attracts a movie and theatrical crowd, the clergy last week responded as usual to the pleasures of the table, and crumbs of information mingled...
...Federal Highway Administration has done virtually nothing to implement it. Because the law forbids rural-highway signs, many banks have also quit financing small billboard companies. Without cash for maintenance, a lot of billboards have been allowed to rot on the roadsides-becoming uglier than ever. Big billboard companies-still collecting rent on their legal signs in urban and commercial areas -are buying billboard locations cheap and building new signs, betting that the Government will not enforce the law in the foreseeable future. Some companies have also noted that the law forbids signs within 660 feet of an interstate highway...
...worry is the oil industry. Maine still has no laws regulating oil spills, offshore drilling and the like. Yet oilmen are now surveying the state's harbors, the only ports in the East deep enough to berth the industry's ever larger supertankers. The key trouble spot is Machiasport, where three companies plan major refineries despite thick fogs and tricky currents that pose serious risks of tanker mishaps and oil spillage. Devoid of controls, says Cole, "the state is standing stark naked to the oilmen...
Nonetheless, Cole has "no doubt" that the oil industry will gain entree to Maine's ports. But he and others are fighting hard for legal safeguards. And despite the pressures, he is optimistic. "Maine is still relatively clean," he says. "If enough people are concerned about the state, we can do something with it." By rousing such concern, the Times may ease the pain in Maine...
...year associate law professor at Boston College began looking last March for a $30,000 four-bedroom house within walking distance of his job and in a neighborhood with reasonably good schools. He and his wife are still looking-even though they have raised their limit to $40,000. "We're in a bind," says the professor, who now pays $275 a month for a six-room apartment three miles from his work. "We cannot find a decent house, and we cannot afford to stay in an apartment...