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...pres ent $100 million annually for treating waste water if it hopes to end industrial pollution of the nation's rivers; 2) communities will have to spend at least another $1 billion a year to halt sewage problems; and 3) cleaning up the air will cost a stiff $2 billion...
...Harvard soccer team, riding a title wave generated by last week's 6-1 win over Dartmouth, faces a stiff challenge against a well-balanced Penn squad in Philadelphia today. The two teams are currently tied for second place in the tight Ivy League race with 2-1 records, and one more loan for either will mean an end to competition...
...excellent." He still looked somewhat drawn, and Press Secretary Bill Moyers had informed newsmen earlier that it would take more time than anyone had thought for the President to recover his full strength. Nonetheless, Johnson no longer winced with pain when he walked. The day after his first stiff quarter-mile outing in the hospital grounds, he ventured outside for a 1½-mile stroll and cheerfully shook hands with passersby. He stopped to chat with Mrs. Margaret Pisapia of Silver Spring, Md., who told him: "You look wonderful." "I'm doing O.K.," he replied...
...syllogism and the force of a heroic haiku. Yi Bang-won and Jong Mong-ju addressed each other in sijo, and over the next five centuries their example was emulated by thousands of eminent statesmen, generals and courtesans. A vast literature of sijo resulted, and even these stiff translations by Inez Kong Pai suggest that it is a poetic form whose recognition by the West is long overdue...
...military future. It is true that several demonstrators may have breached specific draft laws. One protestor publicly burned his draft card, and it has been alleged (and denied) that Berkeley Students for a Democratic Society circulated literature urging illegal methods of draft evasion. For these crimes there are stiff penalties, and objectors who resort to civil disobedience must be prepared to accept the consequences...