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...enchanted the travelingest, doingest, seeingest people on earth. They marveled at Yellowstone's Old Faithful geyser. They gasped at the grandeur of the Grand Canyon, at the fire falls cascading down the face of Yosemite's Glacier Point, at the stalactitic vastness of New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns. They agreed that there is nothing more beautiful than the Great Smokies when the rhododendron and the laurel are in bloom. They whispered in the cathedral silence of the towering rain forests of the Northwest. And they shivered a little as they summoned up the ghostly crash of battle...
...moneymaking sites for the individuals or government agencies that happen to own them. Otherwise, are caves good for anything? Some have been sources of saltpeter for munitions (Kentucky's Mammoth); others provide guano fertilizer from bat droppings (100,000 tons still lie in New Mexico's Carlsbad), cool storage for beer and cheese, ready-made railroad tunnels (for the Southern Railway in Virginia), chicken pens with below hen-killing summer temperatures, cesspools for at least five Pennsylvania towns, factories for moonshiners and counterfeiters, prisons (Marvel Cave, Mo.), natural air conditioning for surface buildings. Kentucky's Mammoth even...
...never quite managed the splendor imagined by its creator, but its TV cameras have looked into the Grand Canyon, crossed the seas to Bimini and Cuba, and gone over the border to Mexico and Canada. Under the guidance of M.C. Dave Garroway, the show has penetrated Carlsbad Caverns, looked east and west from the Continental Divide, plunged underwater in Florida. Up to 60 TV cameras have been used on a single show. Inaccessible spots were joined to the network by 75,000 miles of circuit cables, and more than 100 temporary transmitter towers have lifted the TV signal over mountain...
...Wide, Wide World ostensibly dealt with Our Heritage but this time its ranging from New Orleans to San Francisco, from Carlsbad Caverns to Canada had a postcard unreality: nothing that the viewer saw seemed to be actually happening. Everything-whether a Cajun picnic or a tour of a three-masted schoon-er-appeared to have been elaborately and ineptly staged for television...
...expansion by drilling and then capping gas wells all over the Southeast. Yet not even this is enough for quick-thinking Kayser; things seldom move fast enough for him. "Sometimes," he once confided to a friend in a quiet moment, "I go over and take a trip through Carlsbad Caverns and think. 'This wasn't built in a day.' " But the impression never lasts long...