Martini and Uplift in a Not So Healthy Town
An amused narrator hosts a martini night while an uptight “uplift” official urges Americans toward a fully healthy life. The dialogue skewers health fads, jogging, car habits, and political conformity, ending with a helpfully reckless toast to Richard Nixon and a craving for a new car.
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Uplift Police
America
Congress
Detroit
Uplift
Washington
Richard Nixon
Shooting their way into the saloon
The Christian Science Monitor decries a tobacco industry's plan to spend 40 million dollars in six months to promote a new cigarette. It condemns the strategy as exploiting freedom of commerce to undermine public health, calling the naturality claim and advertising offensive and dangerous to society.
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New York Times
Hillside Silver church dedication and 4-H award mention
Looking Back notes the Christian Science Church on Hillside and Silver streets dedicated to worship, funded by a $40,000 bequest from Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper Kelley in memory of her parents and husband. It also highlights Martin V. Brown of Pownal winning state and county honors in the 4-H egg laying contest over the past six months with a state prize reward.
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Christian Science Church
Hillside
Silver Streets
Elizabeth Cooper Kelley
Charles
Annie Semple Cooper
Charles C. Kelley
Pownal
Martin V. Brown
Thermal discharge and waste heat in aquaculture debate
The article examines how heated wastewater from power plants, especially nuclear facilities, affects marine life and ecosystems. It cites Seabrook NH and Hamilton NJ projects using warm effluent to grow trout and shrimp, discusses cooling options, regulatory permits, and potential productive uses like aquaculture and desalinization.
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Seabrook
N.H
Scandinavia
Germany
Hamilton
N.J
Public Service Electric and Gas Company
National Science Foundation
THE
Environmental Protection Agency
Massachusetts
Maine
Bar and church rely on mystery to uphold reverence
A quote attributed to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the U S Supreme Court compares the bar and the church as institutions that use secretive language and procedures to maintain reverence and distance from the public.
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Warren E. Burger
The
U.S. Supreme Court
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