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Ever since the environmental impact statement that gave the Medical Area power plant a clean bill of health was released last spring, Boston Edison has been crying whitewash over the document...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Harvard May Outmuscle the State | 11/8/1975 | See Source »

...recent changes in South Africa's attitude toward its black neighbors are only a whitewash. They reflect the increasing instability of the apartheid rule, and South Africa's increasing isolation on the continent. If the white South Africans wish to avoid a bloodbath, they will have to begin to make more and more concessions to the Africans, who are increasingly resistant to the regime. Only when South Africa forms a coalition government, in which the Africans have the majority they deserve numerically--not to mention the fact that they were there first, despite the government's assertion to the contrary...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Whitewashing South Africa | 10/15/1975 | See Source »

Bruin placekicker Jose Violante inked his name into the record-books with a 51-yard field goal in the third quarter. The blast bested his previous school mark of 49 yards, set last year against the Quakers. Penn averted the whitewash in the final stanza, quarterback Carl Smith hooking up with split end Steve Hasselback for a 34-yard TD pass...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Brown, Dartmouth Win | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...N.A.A.C.P. denounced DeMascio's judgment as a "whitewash." But many Detroiters, including the city's black mayor Coleman Young, praised the decision. With audible relief, Young said he did not "believe we have the ingredients in this order for another Boston or Little Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Trouble on The Busing Route | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...Lafayette Cemetery Number One in New Orieans, bright green vines grow out of the cracks in the graves, which are above ground, made of red brick covered with whitewashed plaster. The whitewash is powdery and comes off on your hands and sometime when the green vines grow big, they break off chunks of the plaster on the graves and the red brick shows through...

Author: By Micholas Lemann, | Title: New Orleans, City of Dreams | 7/11/1975 | See Source »

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