Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carved stone columns amidst the ruins of a Cozumel building at left are part of the finds uncovered by a joint Harvard-University of Arizona archaeological team this summer on the Mexican island...
...world's greatest system of national parks-with tremendous new 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...
...York Harbor or Gateway West outside San Francisco, should not be part of the national system, but should be run by the states or cities that use them. Nor do the 172 historic areas, like Gettysburg, and the 37 National Recreation Areas, like man-made Lake Mead on the Arizona-Nevada border, really fit the definition of unspoiled natural beauty. They should be removed from the National Park Service and operated by a separate federal bureau...
...also introduced a widely adored spring program for offbeat operatic productions sung in English (among them Kurt Weill's Mahagonny). More important, he has launched the roving Western Opera, a company of young American singers and players that regularly tours in places as far apart as Alaska and Arizona. But it is in the cavernous War Memorial Opera House of the parent company that Adler has really made a showing. He presented the first major U.S. stagings of such operatic landmarks as Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...other troubles, the U.F.W. finds its very existence under attack. In Arizona, Kansas and Idaho, laws have been passed that would cripple Chavez's organizing activities; they prohibit boycotts by farm workers, require farm-union elections before strikes can be called and hinder strikes at harvest time. Similar measures are included in an initiative that has been put on the California ballot by a combination of growers, shippers and the California Farm Bureau Federation. If a lettuce boycott can succeed under these circumstances, it may be that only Cesar Chavez can bring...