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Scott treats blue-chip polluters as firmly as other prosecutors do the Mafia. His list of defendants facing court action reads like a Who's Who of big business: U.S. Steel, Republic Steel, Mobil Oil, American Zinc and Monsanto, to name a few. Under his guidance, Illinois recently joined a number of other states and cities in a Federal Government suit against General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and other vehicle makers. Scott wants the Government to force the auto industry to install antismog devices on all cars and trucks dating back to 1953. In late November, charging that "the exhaust...
...early 1930s, every cure has failed. DDT may kill birds as well as the beetles; another pesticide named Bidrin sometimes destroys the trees. Frantic elm owners have resorted to such quack remedies as turpentine injections or driving galvanized nails into the trunks (in hopes that the zinc oxide will deter the fungus). So far, the only solution has been to chop down and haul away infected trees, a process that prevents the disease from spreading to healthy elms...
...competing Maverick). Automen justify the increases by citing higher production costs. G.M. figures that payroll costs have risen 6% in the past year and will go up another 6% this month under terms of the company's labor contract; steel is up 6%, copper and lead 24%, zinc...
...that was before the vessel got stuck in the ice in the McClure Strait. The Manhattan broke loose 24 hours later and headed toward the Beaufort Sea. Should the Manhattan's voyage be successful, the way will then be clear to bring Alaska's wealth of iron, zinc, copper and sulphur readily to market as well...
Whither Barataria. At the government's request, a three-member committee, headed by Sir Val Duncan, chairman of Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation Ltd., has been studying British representation abroad for a year. Their report, just released, may upend yet another British institution. Comparing Britain to "a man who decides that his requirements no longer justify the upkeep of a Rolls-Royce," the committee recommended "a significant reduction" in the size of the diplomatic service, a 50% slash in the size of overseas information departments, and a one-third cut in the number of armed-service attaches. Moreover, said...