Word: wastelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black press feature is an attempt at implementing both the forum and workshop purposes of the Journal. Thus it begins with an historical survey by Nell Painter. a Harvard graduate student, of the first 100 years of Afro American journalism and concludes with "A Walk Through the Wasteland," an analysis by Marquite Jones, assistant producer of ABC's black oriented "Like It Is," of the roles and reflections of black people in national television. Other articles in the feature include Francester F. Orme's "The Black Press, a memorandum for change" responses from black publishers to a Journal questionnaire: Charles...
...ball. The other is marriage. Sally and her glib, skirt-chasing husband Buddy (Gene Nelson) have become pathetic caricatures of the Andy Hardy couple they once were?naivete swallowed by facts. Phyllis and her acrid WASP's-nest of a husband Ben (John McMartin) are glamour gone dry, a wasteland with wedding rings...
Last week Ralph Nader offered a gloomy answer: a 700-page report entitled Water Wasteland, the product of a 21-month study by one of Nader's numerous teams of "raiders." Despite 15 years of effort, seven laws and more than $3 billion in expenditures, say the researchers, the federal program to curb water pollution is "a miserable failure...
Even so, the report has caused surprisingly little criticism of its substantive points. "I agree with Ralph Nader," says William Ruckelshaus, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. "We are in danger of creating a water wasteland if we permit to happen in the future what has happened in the past." Ruckelshaus promises "radical changes" in law enforcement...
...described as "behind schedule." More huge reserves will be tapped in Montana, Utah and Wyoming. Even the landowners who stand to gain the most from sale of their property fear the result: 42,000 sq. mi. of land-an area larger than Ohio-might be turned into a sterile wasteland...