Word: wurster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly Unessential. The vague wording and relatively leisurely pace of Finch's plan failed to satisfy some scientists who have been actively campaigning against DDT. "If you can ban cyclamates in four or five days, then you can act just as quickly against DDT," says Biologist Charles F. Wurster Jr. of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. "Besides, we are already down to 'essential' uses-and they are clearly unessential for human and environmental health standards...
Airborne Cats. Beyond the danger to fish and birds lies DDT's threat to the whole ecological system. Concentrations of DDT no larger than a few parts per billion in plankton, says Biologist Charles F. Wurster Jr., chief scientific adviser to a New York conservationist group called the Environmental Defense Fund, can substantially hinder the photosynthesis process. On a larger scale, such interference could have a devastating effect, since phytoplankton produces 70% of the earth's oxygen...
Just up the hill from Cost Plus is Ghirardelli Square, a festive complex of shops and restaurants carved out of an old chocolate factory by Architects Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons. Matson Line Heirs Mrs. William P. Roth and her son have spent $10 million on the project, lured such prestige tenants as Design Research and Trader Vic Bergeron, who put in a Mexican restaurant called Senor Pico's. Now the Roths are expanding further into an adjacent woolen mill...
Leverett can look forward to a strong team next year with five of eight men on the team returning Captain and Coach Grant Hammond, John Wurster and Tom Pringle are all seniors, but Tebin, Lanken, Keats, Obst and Jeff Dundon will swim for Leverett next year...
Walter Keats and John Wurster put Leverett ahead with one--two finishes in the 50-yard backstroke. Tom Pringle widened the lead with a victory in the 50-yard freestyle...