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...most states, gasoline taxes build roads-inviting more cars, more taxes, more roads and so on. Oregon has a different idea. In the nation's most anti-"growth" state, where bumper stickers proclaim SAVE OREGON FOR OREGONIANS, the legislature has just passed a bill that would channel 1% of all state gas-tax revenues into building bicycle lanes and footpaths. These paths would be built along highways, streets and in parks. The bill also says that the state may restrict paths to nonmotorized vehicles. If Governor Tom McCall signs the bill into law, Oregon's biennial budget will...
Looking more flora than fauna herself, Mrs. David Bruce, wife of the U.S. representative at the Paris peace talks with North Viet Nam, popped across the Channel to London's Chelsea Flower Show to accept the new Evangeline Bruce Rose, named in her honor. Appropriately, for the wife of a diplomat, the Evangeline Bruce is a delicate compromise of pink and cream...
...mentioned another Churchill dictum, dated 1946: "We must build a kind of United States of Europe." Heath's task-and it is likely to be the most important of his career-is to persuade the British that their destiny lies not toward the open sea but across the Channel, the ditch that long rendered them impregnable to continental conquerors but also cut them off from a more active role in Europe...
Veronica enjoyed its unchallenged position until 1967, when Dutch radio and TV introduced commercials. In the same year a lively pop music radio channel called Hilversum Three was put into operation by the official broadcasting associations. To add to Veronica's troubles, a second pirate ship. Radio Northsea, appeared off the Dutch coast in 1970. At first Radio Northsea was content to broadcast in English...
...turned-adventurer, in the last unexplored regions of the earth. The chronicler is a fine natural historian, but at times his subject makes any words inadequate. In Blue Water, White Death, it is the camera that achieves what prose approximates. In the waters of Ceylon, Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel, and in the intemperate shoals off South Africa, a group of unarmed hunters seek an acquaintance with the great white shark. The fish-twice as tall as a man, heavier than a ton-is no ordinary killer. One 18th century writer reported that "in the belly of one was found...