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With the game tied in the third period, Cornell was facing a third-and-23 from its own 23. QB Aaron Sumida's pass fell incomplete, but once again the Harvard backfield was called for pass interference, and the Red got an automatic first down...
...junior quarterback Aaron Sumida, who completed 16 of 28 passes for 169 yards and a touchdown. Cornell also got a 42-yd. field goal from senior placekicker Dave Quarles...
Even now there are no laws requiring emission devices on automobiles. Most factories still burn high-sulfur Persian Gulf oil. Only 40 full-time inspectors have been hired to check pollution in Tokyo's 10,000 factories. When a swimmer died recently in the Sumida River-which Tokyoites have renamed the "River of Death"-an autopsy showed that he had not drowned, but suffocated from inhaling methane gas, a byproduct of sludge and pollutants...
...miles out, an explosion of light against Honshu's black mountain ridges. By day, the world's largest metropolis (pop. 11.4 million) is a hazy brown and gray sprawl. Prosperity has only worsened Tokyo's housing shortage, its snarled traffic, and the soot that boils in across the brown Sumida River from the blast furnaces of Kawasaki, which has 3,000 industrial plants and a population of 940,000. Two-thirds of Tokyo is still without sewers; residents are served by "honeybucket" men, trucks and a "night-soil fleet" of disposal ships, some as big as 1,000 tons, that...
...wintry mornings, when the sun burns off the pearl and filthy mist, Fuji still soars beyond the freeway. And every week a dozen tank cars rumble through the pine grove of the Imperial Palace, hosing dust and soot from the drooping needles. The harbor itself, and the once limpid Sumida River where warrior-poets repaired, are now thick with wastes-both human and industrial. Yet there is scarcely a resident of Tokyo who could not compose a stately, sympathetic waka in the shade of his humble eaves...