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...station WJR 760, Detroit." The Bengals have just won their ninth in a row and have moved from fifth to second place in a matter of two weeks. Manager Sparky Anderson defiantly declares that if the Tigers are seven games out on July 20, they'll be in the thick of the race down to the wire...
...almost everything, and as long as you buy the basic assumption--that capitalists consciously try to oppress others constantly--then it fits together pretty well. And the inevitability part is nice--one day Dawn brought along "The Draft Manifesto and Programme of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA," a thick booklet on what will happen after, with detailed discussions of the personal ownership of firearms, the place of culture, and the limits on dissent...
Looking for new waste sites, a private company has purchased obsolete Titan I missile silos in an Idaho desert. Near Grandview, three 160-ft.-deep holes, lined with 6-ft.-thick concrete walls and 13-ft.-thick concrete floors, are each being used to store some 1.5 million cu. ft. of wastes. Several European companies are using incinerator ships to burn chemical wastes at sea. Costle feels that U.S. private industry, rather than Government, should devise safe disposal techniques. Says he: "It's smarter and can do the job more efficiently than the Government...
...producers, the users and the ultimate disposers of the chemicals have not been required to keep records on what they did with waste material. Most companies stack it in barrels on back lots. Some pay haulers to cart it to reprocessing plants, high-temperature incinerators or landfills where thick clay linings prevent chemicals from leaching into the earth...
...hole 18 ft. deep and 300 yds. long. The bottom and sides of the excavation were formed of coarse beach sand, which would have allowed chemicals to filter down to the aquifer lying 80 ft. or less below the surface. Therefore, Hooker is lining the vault with 10-ft.-thick walls of compacted clay. The vault will rise five stories into the air. "A monument to stupidity," snorts Marion Dawson, a leader in the long fight to force Hooker to clean...