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...poisons and close the loopholes detailed in an alarming new congressional report. The EPA weighed in with its own announcement tightening controls on dioxin and other toxic substances. Compiled during three years by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the new study warns that 255 million to 275 million tons of chemical poisons are being dumped in the U.S. every year, a ton for every person. It estimates that it will cost from $10 billion to $40 billion to clean up the waste...
...Hope's Road to Hollywood, an NBC special set for this week, the comedian has dusted off a ton of old film clips from many of his more than 55 feature films, including the seven Road pictures he did with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, 68. And so, to say "Thanks for the memories," Hope gathered a chorus of his past leading ladies. Lined up from left to right, Virginia Mayo, 62, Janis Paige, 60, Jill St. John, 42, Martha Raye, 66, Rosemary Clooney, 54, Lucille Ball, 71, Rhonda Fleming, 59, Lamour, Jane Russell, 61, Dina Merrill...
...chintz-covered drawing room of a grand country house, a swimming pool, ballroom, chapel, theater and elegantly appointed bedroom suites-the Queen's with rosebud curtains, the Prince's in a more austere navy style. This ship is not for the frugal: it burns a ton of oil every seven miles. The ship's 26 officers and 254 crewmen all give their orders in stage whispers so as not to disturb the royal repose...
...Force C-141 transports and giant C5-A Galaxies roared overhead, Honduran special-forces parachutes bloomed in the skies above that remote and inhospitable corner of the country, twelve miles from the Nicaraguan border. In the nearby Caribbean coastal town of Puerto Lempira, two 8,800-ton U.S. Navy landing craft nosed ashore to deposit 580 members of the Honduran fourth infantry battalion. A mile away, U.S. Army officers huddled at a sophisticated and top-secret satellite communications center that had suddenly materialized in the swampy jungle, along with a mobile radar station. The display of U.S. military muscle flexing...
...scientists are walking three feet in the air. They're absolutely ecstatic." So said a NASA spokesman last week as data began pouring down from one of the most unusual instruments ever launched into space. The cause of the jubilation is a one-ton cylindrical-shaped object called the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, or IRAS. A first of its kind, the solar-powered spy in the sky will literally show the universe in a new light...