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Summer campers, take heart-and get organized. Starting this week, the National Park Service begins apportioning 4,000 of its 7,000 campsites in six of its most popular parks (Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Teton, Everglades, Grand Canyon and Acadia) on a new basis: by appointment only...
...computer will sort everyone out, providing a guaranteed spot for a fee of $1.50 apiece. Clutching their printouts, campers will be able to drive past the SORRY-NO VACANCIES signs and the lines of disorganized tourists waiting vainly to get at the great, jampacked outdoors. "Eventually," says Acadia National Park Superintendent Keith Miller, "a mobile society has to face the need for certain restrictions on its mobility...
...parks yet to be selected in Alaska. The system embraces the incense cedars and sapphire waters of Crater Lake in Oregon, the Great Smoky Mountains' misty rills in Appalachia, the giant cathedrals of California's redwoods, Arizona's mighty Grand Canyon, Maine's sparkling Acadia. Each park was chosen for its beauty and grandeur and preserved intact forever for public "enjoyment...
Three types of barge-carrying ships are being developed. The Acadia Forest, the first of 13 LASH (for "lighter aboard ship") vessels now being built at a cost of about $21.5 million each, is due to be put into operation by Central Gulf Steamship Corp. next month. The vessel will be able to carry 39,000 tons of cargo aboard 73 barges. Under plans devised by Jerome Goldman, a New Orleans marine architect, the barges will be hoisted out of the water by a giant shipboard crane and stored vertically in 14 bays on the LASH...
Tonight's opponent is Dalhousie College, and if everything goes well today, the Crimson will play the winner of a clash between Acadia and St. Mary's in the finals Saturday night. American teams have fared very well in this tournament in the past, and two years ago M.I.T. was victorious...