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Lavelle further weakened her position by feuding openly with Robert Perry, EPA's general counsel. Their first big clash came last spring, when Perry urged her to avoid a conflict of interest in the case of the Stringfellow Acid Pits dump near Riverside, Calif., a high-priority EPA target site where 32 million gal. of toxic wastes had been dumped during 17 years. Before joining EPA, Lavelle had worked for the California chemical company Aerojet-General Corp., where she developed a public relations campaign to counter pollution charges against the company. It was a job that kept her busy...
...DIED. Stringfellow Barr, 85, distinguished author and educator who rocked the academic world in 1937 when, as the new president of St. John's College, he instituted a radical curriculum requiring the study of 100 classics; of pneumonia; in Alexandria, Va. Barr felt that colleges should scrap textbooks and introduce students to such authors as Plato, Darwin, Dante, Shakespeare and Marx...
After a fine Keller-Sarmiento corner kick that the Crimson almost converted, Mauro tried a free kick from nearly the same spot. This time he scooted it low toward the goal and Mike Smith redirected it past Stringfellow for a 1-1 tie with 31:19 gone...
Pike, who was frankness personified, picked the title Nothing to Hide for the autobiography he never actually wrote. Now this biography (The Death and Life of Bishop Pike; Doubleday; $10), by William Stringfellow and Anthony Towne, is even more candid than Pike was in life. The book has full backing from the bishop's last wife, Diane Kennedy Pike, whose introduction calls it "sensitively written" and adds "It has been my joy to cooperate with the authors." The authors tell in some detail how Diane became Pike's mistress long before they were married and nearly a year...
...Much Help. The bishop's elder son, James A. Pike Jr., committed suicide at 20, apparently in unhappiness at being a homosexual. Stringfellow and Towne state: "Jim Jr. did talk with his father on at least one occasion ... about his fears that he might be homosexual. Bishop Pike would later feel that he hadn't been much help." They report that Pike himself had had one "homosexual experience while he was a lonely law student at Yale ... He hadn't found the experience unpleasant or distasteful. 'It was just that nothing seemed to fit together...