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...their affluence, the Hestons, their son Fraser, 11 (who played the infant Moses in The Ten Commandments), and adopted daughter, Holly Ann, 5, live sedately in an eight-room house on a ridge high over Coldwater Canyon near Hollywood. His major indulgence is a private tennis court, onto which he likes to coax name pros, who regularly clobber him. Otherwise, "Chuck" Heston, as friends call him, mostly stays inside doing calisthenics and culling scripts. It doesn't bother him to be called a square. "So," he says, "were Moses...
...NEWS ENCORE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Naturalist-Author Joseph Wood Krutch is the guide for a trip through the Grand Canyon starting at the rim, taking a ride down the Colorado River rapids and stopping for a visit with the Havasupai Indians. Repeat...
...Lamont Library for a refreshing and controversial change. There, amid the tomes of the all-male sanctum, you can view three exhibits: "A $300 million Federal Project Brings Death to the Everglades National Park." "Ladies and Liquor Cause the Demise of the Giant Redwood Trees," and "Folly Floods Grand Canyon." Come early and avoid the rush...
...Ohio State University. The next year he became travelling press secretary for the Cincinnati Redlegs. In each town the team visited, Reston went to the local newspaper and asked for a job. After eight months he got one-through his high school friend Milton Caniff, later of Steve Canyon fame-with the Associated Press in New York. He wrote sports features, and for a time a chit-chat column about books and theatre called "A New Yorker at Large...
...very disturbing that few people know about the extreme danger facing the Grand Canyon of the Colorado this year. Congress is scheduled to act soon on the construction of the Bridge and Marble Canyon Dams as part of the Colorado River Reclamation Bill (HR4671). These dams will flood over half the canyon left unspoiled after the Glen Canyon Dam was built, including the entire Grand Canyon National Monument. Neither dam is designed to trap irrigation water, a job accomplished too effectively by the existing dams upstream. They are proposed for hydro-electric power to pay for the rest...