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...Crime Supplement. Fish are clearly Boyle's primary fixation. He keeps an aquarium in his Croton-on-Hudson house, partly for receiving specimens he seines from the river, partly to exercise his empathy for finned creatures. The striped-bass fingerlings, he comments cheerfully, "were gamboling all over the tank like Labrador pups." Just as canaries were once carried into coal mines to warn the miners of poisonous gases, Boyle tends to use fish as a measure of man. Bass taken from the Hudson off Bayonne have a taint of petroleum; shad roe is more than just fishy; sturgeon taken...
Because of a certain monomania in Boyle, large portions of his book read like a crime supplement to the Rivers of America series, which set out to celebrate the belief that America was still the Beautiful. Boyle follows the river down from its source at Mount Marcy (where the great conservationist Theodore Roosevelt received the news of McKinley's death by assassination) and finds its enemies innumerable. Thrifty upriver towns happily send their raw sewage roiling southward toward foul and wicked Manhattan. Tankers leak oil. Corporations discharge incalculable quantities of industrial waste. They always seem able to find...
...Office of Tests plans to supplement the questionnaire with interviews and to send revised questionnaires to random samplings of faculty, alumni, and incoming freshmen...
...defense companies. Employees at American Telephone & Telegraph Co. headquarters in Manhattan, for example, must show identification cards every time they enter or leave the building. Visitors with no specific business in the building are firmly escorted outside. Some groups of businessmen even employ private guards in their neighborhoods to supplement the police. Between 59th and 74th streets, New York City's Madison Avenue has a daytime squad of 15 private police hired by the area's merchants for $2,400 a week. Less visible protection is being supplied by many companies never before concerned with the security business...
...Frederick Sheldon and Henry Russell Shaw fellowships each provide their four winners with $3200 to supplement their education through foreign travel...