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Dangerous Compounds. If the housewife is confused by that advice, she has good reason. For several years, various federal agencies have joined ecologists in stressing that phosphates can cause grave environmental damage. Pouring in a sudsy torrent from washing machines, detergents now account for about half of the growing amount of phosphates in U.S. waters. By overfertilizing algae and other plant life, phosphates start a process that depletes the oxygen supply in the water and eventually results in the eutrophication, or "death," of lakes and ponds. To counter that expanding threat to the nation's waters, four states...
...what Connally so emphatically describes as "the capstone" of the Administration program is a large effort to aid business. The key proposal is for an investment tax credit of 10% in the year beginning Aug. 15 and 5% in subsequent years. In theory, the credits will produce a torrent of capital investment, which will trickle through the economy, generating new orders for goods and services and new jobs...
...bombing provoked a torrent of critical reactions on campus-much of it from student radicals. NAC condemned the bombing on tactical grounds, as did SDS and PL, who chanted "Mass Actions, Not Mad Bombings." Most students and Faculty were unanimous in their denunciation of the bombing, and a Young Americans for Freedom rally in protest against the bombing drew more than 200 people...
During his active years, Niebuhr was a 17-hour-a-day dynamo who kept students breathless with rapid, challenging lectures and intense conversations in his unostentatious, book-lined office in the seminary tower. He lived a disciplined, mildly ascetic life and produced 17 major books, plus a torrent of trenchant speeches and articles-often turned out at the last minute. Generous but no word mincer, Niebuhr called pacifists "parasites," death-of-God theologians "infants," and White House religious services "complacent conformity." In 1952, he had a heart attack, the first of several physical ailments that slowed but did not stop...
...Novel, 3,000 ft. above sea level, has no store of any kind and only 34 inhabitants. Yet in the past decade, Novel has witnessed a remarkable 800 to 900 weddings. Couples itching to be hitched flock there from all over France and neighboring Switzerland, only a mountain torrent and a small bridge away. What makes Novel the Elkton, Md., or Gretna Green, Scotland, of France is the hamlet's mayor, René Bouvet. An athletic, effervescent man of 42, Bouvet does not believe in the ten-day posting of the bans or the month-long residency required...