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...federal standards would amount to $26 billion to $29 billion between 1969 and 1973. Senator Henry Jackson of Washington figures that cleaning and deodorizing the air will cost $12 billion to $15 billion during the next five years. President Nixon has prepared a $10 billion, five-year program to build municipal waste-treatment plants for U.S. waterways. Congress has already authorized about $1 billion in funding for pollution control in this fiscal year alone. In addition, U.S. companies in 1969 invested an estimated $1.5 billion -up 40% for the year-to control the air and water pollution they create...
After 15 years on top of the TV-ratings heap, CBS has run into trouble this season. The result last week, as NBC and CBS announced their program lineups for next fall, was CBS's most drastic overhaul since the James Aubrey reign of the early 1960s. The network abandoned many of the traditional shows that had given it clear superiority in rural areas and among the elderly. It concentrated instead on its idea of sophistication. That meant the cancellation of The Red Skelton Show after 16 seasons, The Jackie Gleason Show after eight successful years and Petticoat Junction...
...Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)-an M. I. T.-based organization of Boston-area scientists-will sponsor a two-day conference on scientific responsibility and arms control as part of a national March 4 program...
Grodzins said that the two-day program-Tuesday at Sanders Theatre and Wednesday at M. I. T.'s Kresge Auditorium-will focus on the ABM (anti-ballistic missile) and CBW (chemical-biological warfare) as problems of arms control...
Last year's March 4 program-held to symbolize "a dedication on the part of scientists to positive action on the social and political problems in which our science is involved"-featured a talk by George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology...