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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even contamination from DDT, which some scientists had predicted would take hundreds of years to be washed out of the Great Lakes, is only 10% of what it was ten years ago. Says Wayland Swain, director of the EPA's Large Lakes Research Laboratory in Grosse He, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Comeback for the Great Lakes | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...Lake Erie is officially opened again for the first time since 1961, or because the Cuyahoga River, while gray and sulky looking, is relatively free from oil and jetsam, or because the water treatment plant in Chicago is having fewer taste and odor problems. Says EPA's Swain: "We still have a long way to go before we solve the problems of toxic substances. Then there is a whole series of new environmental issues." Among them: sodium from the salt used during the winter on Midwestern roads, which drains into the lakes and may be an important element...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Comeback for the Great Lakes | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...think people here are involved. When you get out of Washington there's a whole lot of things that don't seem to matter. But folks appreciate what he's doing," says Oneida businessman and longtime friend W. H. Swain...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Mr. Statesman | 11/1/1979 | See Source »

Bonn's counterintelligence assumed that Rödiger and her swain had fled to East Germany, as a number of other unmarried secretaries have recently done. Three of the women were employed by officials of the Christian Democratic Union, while a fourth worked at NATO headquarters in Brussels. All were apparently ensnared by a now familiar East German gambit: assigning handsome male Communist agents to lure well-placed secretaries into love-and spying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Sexy Spies | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...decision goes against Swain then it's good. The case is one of the abominations of American constitutional justice," Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, said Thursday...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Puopolo Trial Redux | 3/10/1979 | See Source »

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