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...Coal-tar residues have drained into an aquifer under the metropolitan area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. While the Twin Cities draw water from the Mississippi River, many of their suburbs depend on the threatened underground supply. Near Charles City, Iowa, some deep wells 30 to 40 miles downstream from a chemical dump have shown traces of contamination. At the waste heap, state analysts have found some 6 million Ibs. of arsenic, as well as large quantities of other dangerous chemicals. Says Larry Crane, director of the Iowa department of environmental quality: "It's an organic chemists' cauldron...
...like landed gentry. Duck Bexley is the woebegone father of a brood of five; his wife Elizabeth is pregnant with the sixth. Bexley earned his name from a father who thought that trouble fell off him as water off a duck; in truth it clings to him like fresh tar from a hot summer road. In Korea, he won a Bronze Star for annihilating 44 Chinese trapped in a ravine. Their ghosts haunt him. Now he is past 40, dying slowly of the degenerative disease lupus, unable to keep a job. Elizabeth abides, a back-country madonna...
...swamps of Sudan and new finds offshore of Nigeria and some other west coast countries have renewed interest in the African continent. Amoco recently sank a wildcat well in the Seychelles merely on the ground that Madagascar, about 700 miles away, has an estimated 10 billion bbl. of tar on its surface. Where tar is found, oil is usually not far away. On the other side of the Indian Ocean, India has reportedly found indications of an oil bonanza off its southeast coast. Michael Morrow, publisher of Hong Kong's Petroleum News, told TIME that "on the basis...
...lines," the non-violent direct actions, the Free University in (until it was hit by fire, at whose courtesy one may speculate) Lawrence Hall, the leaflets, the meetings, the rallies, the hearings of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (as in, went SDS chants, "get some feathers, get some tar, let's go get the CRR") the constant circulating and recirculating of issues and anger and unity and division, there was still a Commencement in spring 1970. Life went on. But it was an active spring. And when students plaved "capture the flag" in the Yard, one flag said "Veritas...
...immediate OPEC squeeze, but its long-range effect will be important. Initially, Carter had called for a ten-year, $88 billion effort to construct a network of synfuel plants that could produce up to 2.5 million bbl. of crude oil per day out of coal, shale rock and tar sands. That would enable the nation to cut its projected consumption of imported oil about one-third by 1990. The House-Senate conferees accepted the ultimate goal of the program as set by the President but slowed the pace of spending. Instead of a crash effort that would probably lead...