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AEROSOL: A DEFENSE. Over the past two years, several scientists have become concerned about fluorocarbon propellants, used in aerosol sprays, drifting up through the stratosphere. In their doomsday scenario, these fluorocarbons break down to form chlorine atoms that gradually destroy the ozone shield protecting the earth from an overdose of the sun's ultraviolet rays; this, in turn, increases the risk that humans down on earth will develop skin cancer...
...likeable enough; the people around him bare themselves to him (quite literally, in the imagery of the picture), but Harry Moseby always stands silently behind screened porches, seen through the pane of a glass-bottomed boat, sitting down on a turned-around chair leaning his arms on the shield of its back. When he's got everything solved, and his life awaits that final gesture of control when all the pieces come together, all he can do is flail around in circles going nowhere. When you're a detective investigating yourself, it's impossible to escape the mercenary nature...
...commission found no way to shield the CIA director from improper White House pressures in the future, other than to admonish both Presidents and directors to adhere strictly to the CIA charter. The exhortations struck many experts as worthless. As one Rockefeller commission staff member put it: "You need oversight of the presidency more than you need oversight of the CIA." Ray Cline, a former CIA official and director of intelligence for the State Department who knew both Johnson and Nixon, noted: "They were very strong-minded men. A director of Central Intelligence who said, 'Go to hell...
...reluctant Academy President Philip Handler. In such controversial areas as the sonic booms and atmospheric damage caused by supersonic transports, the dangers of cyclamates and the effects of defoliants in Viet Nam, the study shows in case after case that the academy "allowed itself to be used as a shield by those intent on preserving business as usual...
...that gave him unlimited access to all offices in the courthouse (though a reporter from the Oakland Tribune also carried a similar key). Peckinpah called a hearing at which the newsmen refused to say how they had got hold of the grand jury transcripts. All four invoked the California shield law, which states that an editor or reporter "cannot be adjudged in contempt by a judicial, legislative, administrative body, or any other body having power to issue subpoenas." Nevertheless, Peckinpah promptly held them in contempt, claiming that the shield law unconstitutionally interfered with his judicial powers. Last week the district...