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...canal in nearly four years. The 14 vessels trapped in Great Bitter Lake when the shooting started-four of them British, two Swedish, two West German, two Polish, one American, one French, one Bulgarian and one Czechoslovak-are still there. So is the American freighter Observer, isolated farther upstream. The British ships were abandoned last year after London underwriters paid out a total of $24 million in claims. The skeleton crews who remain aboard the other trapped ships pass three-month hitches in stupefying heat and boredom, which they combat with lifeboat races, movies and an unending supply of beer...
...three-mile course-lengthened from last year's 2.23 miles-begins just below the B.U. bridge and finishes upstream beyond the Cambridge Boat Club building...
...says one advocate of reclaimed water, Dr. Roger E. Kasperson of Clark University in Worcester, Mass. Even more repulsive is the fact that the drinking water in 144 of the 155 U.S. cities with a population of more than 25,000 now contains measurable traces of sewage effluents dumped upstream. Americans also squander vast quantities of fresh water to flush away small amounts of wastes. As a result, the nation's water is needlessly polluted at a prodigal rate...
...Sometimes we are allowed to forget that. We fill our lives with objects. Some of the objects were people once, like my wife and child. In the streets you know that there is something like a river, and that all along you have been trying to fight your way upstream. In the streets, you flow downstream, and are aware of the energy that moves you. But that doesn't mean that it's easy...
...London as the occasion for a blistering attack on student radicals back home. Since ambassadors do not normally attack fellow countrymen before foreign audiences, the British press sarcastically labeled the speech a "surprising public debut." To this sort of criticism, Annenberg has replied: "I'm used to swimming upstream." More recently, at a gathering held by the English-Speaking Union, he shook hands stiffly in the reception line but neglected to give a talk or mix with guests...