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Through a letter to his lawyers the Black Prince, who claims to be a poor farmer though he owns a 365-room castle and a 5,000-acre estate, blasted the affair as a "fabrication." His men were merely planning demonstrations against the upcoming visit of Yugoslav President Tito, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Pasta Putsch | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

The most likely answer is new legislation to enforce reclamation. Some environmentalists point to laws in parts of Europe that make strip miners restore the land to the condition in which they found it-with rocks and subsoil below and topsoil above, all limed, re-seeded and fertilized. Such procedures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Price of Strip Mining | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

In Memphis, for example, conservationists howled in 1968 and 1969 when both the Johnson and Nixon Administrations' Transportation Secretaries (Alan S. Boyd and John A. Volpe) routinely approved a concrete invasion of the city's 342-acre Overton Park, which includes a zoo, golf course and wooded areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Showdown in the Park | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

San Francisco's conflict between development and urban amenity was recently concentrated in a major battle over a 40-story office building. Proposed by the U.S. Steel Corp., it would be built on public land out into the bay as part of a twelve-acre, $140 million project including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Skylines v. Skyscrapers | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

With the rank of lieutenant colonel, Cooper has now retired from the Air Force and is setting up an Institute for Aerobics Research in a suburb of Dallas. On an 8½-acre site, he will have half-mile and one-mile tracks and an Olympic-size swimming pool. Not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Art of Aerobics | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

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