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...coal-gassification and power-plant complexes were built, the report noted, more serious problems would arise. The new jobs created by industrialization would swell the state's population from its present 700,000 to more than 1,000,000, causing a need for more services and more taxes to pay for them. Since the best antipollution devices available cannot filter out all the fine particles that go up the stacks or out the water-discharge pipes of new plants, there would also be more pollution...
Kasler's right thighbone had been set with an iron clamp when he reached Hanoi, but the leg continued to swell under his full body cast. The cast was finally removed and the leg lanced, but the infection spread and the leg puffed up to twice its normal size. For most of that first winter, he lay in fever, alternately freezing and roasting. His roommate, Air Force Captain John Brodak of St. Louis, gave up his own blanket to keep Kasler warm in the 40° nights. "I'm probably here because of his care," says Kasler. (Brodak...
There is a little more to the book than that kind of thing. There are beautiful lyric passages of Texas flash-floods and sunsets. There are swell jabs at "artistic" San Francisco hangers-on, mindless but elegant Harvardians slumming in Hollywood, and New York publishing pariahs who know all the names of their authors, but none of the thoughts behind them. Most impressive is a long episode focussed on an economic South Texas uncle, who lives on a huge sheep ranch, and does nothing but eat, curse out his Mexican help, and jeep over to his wife on another ranch...
...third period was another story, as the sparse crowd began to swell with B.U. and B.C. fans, almost all of whom were rooting for the underdog Huskies. The game began to feel like last Monday's opening round game when Northeastern rallied in the third against B.C. Fortunately, however, they were only able to come with three goals and Harvard was able to hang in there...
...include added material of value to students in choosing their programs. In particular, such descriptions might do more to indicate what instructors hope to achieve by offering their courses and what material and methods of instruction they will use to achieve these aims. Including material of this kind could swell the size (and cost) of the catalogue to unmanageable proporations. Nevertheless, even a limited set of expanded catalogues in the hands of advisers might greatly improve their ability to offer help to their advisees...