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...Unlimited population growth will indeed present an overwhelming challenge to environmental quality. Unfortunately, your article implies that the nation cannot afford to combat water pollution now. But the total costs you derive lump together highest priority and lowest priority items; together they represent the accumulated debt for past neglect and apathy-with interest...
...council when Congress proposed it last summer and has not endorsed a pending bill that would give it ample funds and a staff to carry out its impressive paper responsibilities. Even so, Nixon has lately seized environment as a major political issue, and Congress is unlikely to let him neglect it. As Senator Henry M. Jackson, principal author of the Environmental Policy Act, put it last week: "The council was not designed to be an academic exercise...
...California, the Western continental edge where the nation's future is said to lie, has adopted a divorce reform law that permits a couple to terminate their marriage almost on demand. No longer must cruelty, adultery, desertion or neglect be proved. If either husband or wife claims that "irreconcilable differences" exist and if the judge concurs, he can grant a divorce -or rather, in a terminology designed to eliminate the suggestion of angry separation-he can declare the marriage dissolved. Requiring a residency of six months, and an added six-month waiting period, the new law will principally benefit...
...commission charged the hospital with 52 separate deficiencies-including sloppy housekeeping, failure to maintain sprinkling systems, neglect of fire and disaster planning, failure to recruit enough registered nurses and dieticians, inadequate record systems, and operating in antiquated facilities...
...structure to second-head proportions. Hanging down at strategic intervals (at the temples, around the ears, and down the back of the neck), are separate, curling tendrils of hair. The whole thing may look like the work of a bird who flunked nest building. Yet at $17.50 per neglect-job at Kenneth's Manhattan salon, the elegant lady can-and must-look exactly like a charwoman, or the Char, as the style is also called...