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...most confused polluters in America are the owners of the nation's estimated 1,500,000 pleasure boats. They contribute less than .07% of all sewage spilled into U.S. waterways, a drop in the slop bucket compared with the daily deluge from archaic municipal "treatment" plants, not to mention the wastes from waterside factories. Unorganized boatowners, though, seem an easier target than major polluters. The upshot is a flood of laws and regulations that boatmen consider arbitrary, capricious, discriminatory and unenforceable...
Finally, we are offering a limited number of Gary Snyder's Earth Household ($1.95). This book has become a sort of Bible for many ecofreaks although it never mentions pollution and was mostly written between 1953 and 1960. As Snyder characterizes himself, "I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision of solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth; the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe." "Whatever is or ever was in any other culture...
...disk may allude to the sun, to a breast or to an altar; a triangle to a pyramid or a bird's spread wings. With its vertical masts and calm progression of red, sail-like forms, Odyssey, one of the monumental sculptures at Hammarskjold Plaza, suggests an archaic flotilla dipping through the Aegean. Sometimes a sculpture will work not as an object but as a kinetic metaphor of force. Ascent includes a blade of red steel that surges from the ground and appears to crush a cylinder until it is halted and returned to balance by the serene oblong...
...fact that liquor is the second largest source of revenue for the Federal Government (after the income tax). It is almost as important for hard-pressed state governments. Officials are understandably eager to keep close control over such a rich source of cash. Whisky makers complain that rigid, archaic regulations have blocked them from following the changing attitudes and tastes of the nation's 93 million liquor drinkers. Now, some of the rules are being relaxed, partly to enable domestic distillers to meet growing foreign competition. As a result of decisions by the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division...
...THIS time of unending racism, poverty and war it seems almost frivolous to devote editorial space to a discussion of drug laws. But the present archaic legislation on that subject- which in one state can send a first offender marijuana possessor to jail for life- is hardly a laughing matter...