Word: wurster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neighbor, Windsor, Ont. where they can legally drink at 19. Some students and counselors at the University of Michigan feel the state's lower age limit has actually increased drinking because of the unavailability of booze to teen-agers by the single drink. Says Student Tom Wurster, 19: "You buy it. What are you going to do with it? You can't bring it into the dorm. Down it goes...
Yannacone's (and E.D.F.'s) unofficial motto was: "Sue the bastards." Backed up by an articulate biologist, Charles Wurster, who was his perennial best witness. Yannacone launched fierce and well-documented attacks on DDT in Michigan and Wisconsin; eventually both states banned most uses of the chemical. Later, he haled into court a Hoerner Waldorf paper plant in Montana for polluting the air; the resulting publicity embarrassed the company into installing antipollution devices before the litigation could run its course...