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...local Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, the Sierra Club and the National Audubon Society, the Memphis conservationists challenged both Secretaries' decisions in court. According to the 1966 Department of Transportation Act, they argued, federal funds may not be authorized for highway construction in parks if "feasible and prudent" alternative routes exist. Furthermore, such construction may proceed only if "all possible planning to minimize harm" has been undertaken. Neither Secretary, the plaintiffs claimed, heeded those requirements...
...hooked on these controls or drugs." commented William H. Drury '43, a biologist with the Massachusetts Audubon Society, "and once you stop, you get withdrawal symptoms...
...trumpet the consequences of pollution. Recently they called in ecologists from the University of Georgia to chart the plant's potential effects on marine life. Three weeks ago, Ecologist Barry Commoner helped them to organize a symposium on conservation that was attended by representatives from the National Audubon Society. The cause also got a boost from vacationing college students who staged a protest in downtown Beaufort, chanting "Progress without pollution...
...addition, volunteers will distribute literature and circulate petitions for specific legislation- although the Conservation Club has not yet determined the exact content of the petition. Commoner will conduct a seminar, and the Conservation Club will show films loaned by the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society...
...dazzling ode to the birds, Warren manages to compress a poetic epitaph for Audubon as well as a capsule apologia for the endlessly seeking, destroying and atoning destiny of all artists, of man himself...