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...slew of bills represents a new peak in the battle over the Stadium, which began over ten years ago, even before the Patriots played their first game. Ever since then, the Patriots have made periodic bids for use of the facility, saying that without a stadium the size of Harvard's, they cannot afford to remain in Boston...
Increasing public opposition has already been responsible for halting the construction of several reactors; orders for new atomic plants have dropped from a peak of 31 in 1967 to seven in 1969. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. has been forced to postpone some nuclear plants and turn to gas turbines for power. Minnesota's Pollution Control Agency has defied the Atomic Energy Commission and imposed its own stringent radiation standards on a reactor being built by Northern States Power. While the utility has gone to court to challenge the power of a state to regulate atomic energy...
...their pudgy, green wallets, so dazzled by the physical beauty that they rarely see anything of the real Jamacia," he intones. The real beauty in Jamacia is not in Kingston. "gasping and choking on it blood and its rum" and "exuding a mutant virility," but atop Blue Mountain Peak, where students can stay very cheaply on an old coffee plantation...
...planets but on the return of the Apollo 12 astronauts and called it "moon flu" (TIME, Dec. 19). The epidemic struck first in the north, spread relentlessly down the leg to the very toe of Italy, and last week was rampant in Sicily. Just when it seemed that the peak had passed in the north, cold weather brought a second wave to Trieste and Turin...
...years, practicing together for as much as seven, eight, ten hours a day, they played one-night stands in grubby towns all over the South and Canada. Later, they played invisibly behind Bob Dylan at the peak of his fame, learning from him and teaching him something in return. Now, as The Band?an intentionally unpretentious title?they have come into their own. In the shifting, echoing cacophony of sound and sometimes fury that is the modern rock scene, The Band has now emerged as the one group whose sheer fascination and musical skill may match the excellence?though...