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...scene that continually recurs shows the poet's home a small wooden house by a lake, surrounded by birch trees, cattle, and unknown human figures in the eerie twilight of a summer night...
...study of Camels Hump has shown a rapid decline in nine species of trees on the 4,083-ft. peak. The biomass (the combined weight of tree trunk, branches and foliage) has dropped sharply for several kinds of trees: 25% for sugar maples and beech and 34% for white birch. Red spruce has been the hardest hit, with a biomass decline...
Team member Giles Birch called the journey "semi-serious." Asked about the opportunity to mix business with pleasure, he remarked, "we always to seem to manage that...
...special congressional election in Georgia, however, simply being a woman-and a widow-was not enough to win. Ultralight Democratic Congressman Lawrence McDonald, chairman of the John Birch Society, died on Korean Air Lines Flight 007. His wife Kathy, 34, believed that the Soviets deliberately "assassinated" McDonald, and ran to serve out his fifth term. But moderate Democrat George ("Buddy") Darden trounced her, 59% to 41%. The national New Right tried but then despaired of helping Kathy McDonald. "To be perfectly candid," said Paul Weyrich, director of the right-wing Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, "they...
Much of that money, in turn, went to publicizing anti-abortion political candidates and slandering pro-choice ones. Four particularly intense campaigns were against the re-election bids of liberal Senators George McGovern, Frank Church, Birch Bayh and John Culver. In the McGovern campaign, the New Right ran a "stalking borse" candidate whose objective was not to win, but simply to throw mud at the incumbent. Similarly, Church was the target of a conservative media blitz. As part of its anti-Church campaign, the National Catholic Political Action Committee ran an ad claiming the Senator had voted to increase...