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...Earth Day may be a turning point in American history," Gaylord Nelson told a Denver crowd of 4,000 last week. "It may be the birth date of a new American ethic that rejects the frontier philosophy that the continent was put here for our plunder, and accepts the idea that even urbanized, affluent, mobile societies are interdependent with the fragile, life-sustaining systems of the air, the water, the land." Nelson's mood may have been a bit too euphoric. Still, even though some of the ecological enthusiasm engendered by Earth Day may fade, the earth itself...
...punishment for tippling is ten to 15 days in the stockade. Though the sentence may be sus pended after a day or two of confinement, the unexpired term is tacked onto the tour of duty. Heavy drinkers have been known to serve 50 or 100 days beyond their discharge date...
Died. Herb Shriner, 51, low-key comic, whose homespun, Will Rogers-like style entertained a generation of Americans; with his wife Eileen when their car left the road and hit a tree while they were returning from a nightclub date; in Delray Beach, Fla. Shriner broke into vaudeville in the '30s with a routine that combined the harmonica and wry, sly jokes about life back home in Indiana. ("I came from a small town. Well, I'll give you an idea of the size of it. It was between the first and second signs of a Burma Shave...
Fresh from its ninth consecutive victory in the Greater Boston Championships Wednesday, the Harvard track team meets Army at West Point this afternoon in its toughest dual meet to date...
...facts are otherwise. Of the 46 separate housing-discrimination suits (many of them against multiple defendants) that we have brought or in which we have participated to date, very few have come to trial. We have lost only two cases, and both of these are now on appeal. Fifteen cases have been brought to a successful conclusion by the entry of an injunction or similar court order against the defendant, either by consent of the parties or after trial. The court orders we have secured usually require the defendants not only to stop discrimination but also to take significant affirmative...