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Heedless Growth. Wyoming prospered-but at a price. Crash industrial development has produced heedless, disorderly growth in such once quiet towns as Rock Springs and Gillette. Poorly controlled strip mining for coal threatens to ravage the ranch lands in the Powder River Basin. Hathaway also condoned the killing of golden eagles and favored building a jetport in Grand Teton National Park. Neither is a happy precedent, since the Interior Secretary is responsible for protecting U.S. wildlife and the national parks. Some 20 environmental groups were aghast at this record and immediately protested Hathaway's Cabinet nomination...
...They were a raggedy bunch and they didn't know how to use things. One guy just squatted on the wash basin. So we showed them how to use the toilet. The shower was the big hit. Once we showed them how to use it, they had a ball. One guy held the gun, and the rest piled in under the shower. Some times they were afraid of things they did not understand...
...well provide a commercial link of sorts between Israel and the Arab states-at least in the sense that they will both be privileged trading partners of the EEC. The agreement with Israel is only an initial step in an ambitious Common Market plan to tie the whole Mediterranean basin into a free-trade area linked to the EEC. The Europeans are now negotiating similar agreements with the nations of the Maghreb (Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco), to be followed eventually by pacts with Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria...
Columbia roared off the starting floats Saturday down at the Charles River Basin and matched the Crimson lightweight eight stroke for stroke....for about two strikes. At stroke three Ned Reynolds and company bid bon voyage to the Lions crew, and left the Columbia eight high and dry as Harvard cruised to an easy six jength victory in the impressive time of 6 minutes and 12 seconds...
...with the race last week, today's contest will cover the full 2000 meter Basin course, a departure from the 1000 or 1500 meters that the women usually race. Baker said he wants the 2000 meter distance in order to have a longer race, but at a lower cadence, in preparation for the upcoming races against Princeton and Yale, which will be 1500 meters...