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...been greeted with heartfelt cheers during much of last week. Seeking to report a cover story on General Creighton Abrams and the biggest allied operation since the thrust into Cambodia, TIME'S correspondents ran up against a news blackout so complete that it seemed almost laughable. As Dewey Canyon II got under way, Saigon newsmen were briefed (in the truest sense of the word), told that all news was embargoed and then informed that even word of the embargo was embargoed. Still, by picking up a stray fact here, a veiled hint there and by sifting through previous information...
Defacing a public monument is a crime in France; the idea is worth borrowing and extending to cover such assaults as the Disney scheme to turn California's Mineral King mountain fastness into a tourist development, or the perennial proposal to build a highway through the Grand Canyon. Anyone approaching the national battlefield military park at Gettysburg runs a gauntlet of gaudy billboards, and now Tom Ottenstein, a developer from Silver Spring, Md., is going ahead with plans to build a 300-ft. sightseeing tower on an acre of private land not far from the Gettysburg National Cemetery...
Boosterism is dying in Arizona. Meeting at the Grand Canyon, an ad hoc group of 96 leading citizens called "Town Hall" voted surprisingly to stop spending public funds to attract new industry and residents to the state. Reason: a surfeit of success. While Arizona's 20-year boom has brought immediate economic benefits, it is also impairing the state's natural beauty and resources. Though it has no official power, the group wants to conserve the state for future inhabitants. Urging more government attention to the environment, it recommends specific bans on billboards, nonreturnable bottles and detergents that...
...first ignition occurred in the Malibu area above Los Angeles, apparently the result of careless trash burning. Sparked high in Las Virgenes Canyon, the flames spread across 50 acres in five minutes and were soon rushing toward the sea, consuming the $100,000 houses of movie stars and businessmen. Another fire broke out to the north near Newhall, in the dry foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains. The two blazes later joined at the Ventura Freeway. Among the casualties were beach houses owned by Tuesday Weld and Angela Lansbury, Dale Robertson's spread, part of Spahn's Movie...
...producing; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach. Wood's credits range from the Kate Smith Show to the Bell Telephone Hour, but he is best remembered for NBC's Wide, Wide World, which from 1955 to 1958 celebrated the wonders of the continent from the Grand Canyon to the Florida Keys...