Word: conservationist
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Bowing to conservationist pressures, Secretary Hickel agrees to convert California's last Redwood into a national monument. Hickel personally supervises the task of digging an elevator shaft to its top, where he opens a small heliport. Trish Nixon breaks her engagement to George Hamilton, reported honeymooning with Mark Rudd in Elkton...
...intrepid crew filming a documentary that will be seen on CBS next season. The one-hour production will mark Narrator Holden's TV debut. Ten years ago he left Hollywood and became a co-owner of the Mount Kenya Safari Club. He has since become an avid conservationist, and decided only recently that he would go on TV because he wanted to tell the story of Kenya's ecology...
That the proper use of open space is to structure the growth around it. Most people would say: True. But in a refreshing, optimistic and constructive book, The Last Landscape (Doubleday; $6.95), Author and Conservationist Wil liam H. Whyte firmly disagrees...
Very well known artists are not the only ones on display. Two abstract works by the Russian Serge Poliakoff, big blocks of carefully modelled color, can be seen on entering the exhibit, near a very subtle work in cement--"In the Shadow of a Field"--by ex-conservationist Raoul Ubac, while the plastic, organic cubism of an early Picabia is across the hall...
DAVID BROWER is a conservationist. Think about Walt Disney, birdwatching, and Peter Rabbit, and all the things that the word probably suggests, and then forget them; because when Brower starts talking about what we're doing to nature, he sometimes gets angry, the things he says aren't usually very pretty, and he has few kind words for Smokey the Bear...