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...hand. And we continued to laugh: through Redstone's speech; through some guy telling us how Segal had written the screen play in just one weekend ("The Lost Weekend," someone yelled back): through another guy's apostrophe to this "pure and simple love story" (a premarital affair between a foul-mouthed Cliffie and an Oedipal jock is now by Hollywood's eyes pure and simple ?); through a third's attempt to thank Pusey sidekick Bentinck-Smith (although he kept mispronouncing it Benting ) for allowing the film crew on campus as "friendly trespassers." And when Segal concluded it all by referring...
...abuses were real enough. Last summer the dangers of dirty air were dramatized by the smog that shrouded most of the Eastern Seaboard for days. After a nationwide sampling, the Bureau of Water Hygiene reported that 5% of the water was contaminated and 11% was smelly, discolored or foul. Many cities fought a losing battle to get rid of their garbage. Philadelphia and San Francisco may run out of landfill dumps...
...Navy Secretary John H. Chafee frankly admitted that the dumpings violated "the spirit and intent of legislation signed by the President [the Envfronmental Protection Act of 1970] only eight months ago." The Navy, he promised, will belay such practices from now on. Still not impressed, Muskie called the Mayport foul-up "incredible," and added that it casts doubt on the Government's ability to enforce its own rules...
Maheu also maintained that if the Toolco people took over, Hughes' casino licenses might be endangered, since none of the outsiders had been approved by the state gaming-control board. Finally, Maheu got Undersheriff Lloyd Bell to raid Hughes' quarters at the Desert Inn on suspicion of "foul play." The undersheriff found an empty apartment. Maheu's allies openly speculated that Hughes was incapacitated−or dead. There was even one story that Hughes had been lowered on a stretcher the nine stories from his apartment to the ground to start the trip to Paradise Island...
...foul was called on the run and a Cadet was disqualified from the event, thus allowing a Harvard runner to ake third place...