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...company-which spent $59 million last year to fight pollution in its U.S. plants-accepted a consent decree from a U.S. district court. It agreed to stop pouring noxious wastes into the Hudson until its treatment facility starts operating later this year. Meantime, the Tarrytown plant will pump those effluents into railroad tank cars, then haul them to another treatment center...
...same day the consent decree was signed, John Burns was fired. Whatever the reason for his dismissal, he is now the conservationists' newest folk hero, and his crusading may have just begun. His present target, paradoxically, is the section of the 1899 Refuse Act that requires polluters to obtain permits to discharge wastes into navigable waterways. Because that rule has been widely ignored, President Nixon last month signed an executive order directing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to issue, by July, 40,000 such permits to industries whose effluents meet state and federal water-quality standards. As Burns...
...perfectly all right for me to imagine a twelve-year-old Lolita. She only existed in my head. But to make a real twelve-year-old girl play such a part would be sinful and immoral, and I will never consent...
That was the novelist's original resolve when Hollywood first sought the movie rights to his Lolita in 1958. But one evening he dreamed that he was reading the screenplay; overnight, Nabokov came to the age of consent. An offer of $150,000 did not exactly dissuade him, and he agreed to do the script himself. James Mason was cast as obsessive old Humbert Humbert, with Sue Lyon, then 14, in the title role of the stepdaughter who seduced him. Everybody said the adaptation could not be done, and they were right. But the pallid, bowdlerized film did gross...
...questioned, too, whether Harvard had made a commitment to the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard that no development would proceed without the consent of the community, and whether the AHC plans would be discussed with the community...