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...Patterson's plans soon ran into powerful opposition from the two rival committee chairmen who had sponsored the two rival energy plans. One was Arizona's lanky Mo Udall, chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. A dedicated conservationist, he has fought for safeguards to protect the environment. The other was Michigan's short-tempered John Dingell, chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. He has strongly favored sweeping away state and federal regulations on energy matters...
...soon as the chief conservationist's venomous reaction leaked to local newspapers, environmental groups rallied angrily to Dodd's defense. One such spokesman charged Andrus with "flagrant abuse of power" and "harassment" of "a dedicated public servant." Another point embarrassing to the Secretary: he is known as a regular diner at Dominique's. Last week the kitchen got too hot for Andrus, and he reinstated Dodd. As for Dominique's, it now serves the plentiful, unendangered diamondback rattler...
...Archie" first made headlines at age seven by sliding down a banister straight into a White House reception. He was wounded and highly decorated as an infantry officer in both World Wars, conflicts that none of his three brothers survived. Roosevelt was an investment banker by profession, a conservationist by avocation and a bedrock McCarthyite Republican by political creed. His death makes Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 95, T.R.'s sole surviving child...
...nation's best-known art photographer. He is also the first photographer to appear on TIME's cover and, says his portraitist, "the most deserving subject I can think of-not only because of his contributions as artist and a conservationist. He is a celebration of the art of photography itself...
...Conservationist Felipe Benavides president of the Peruvian branch of the World Wildlife Fund, warns that the decision will ensure the species' doom. But government officials, notably Antonio Brack, who worked with the World Wildlife Fund until he was tapped to head the Special Project for the Rational Use of the Vicuña, deny that the beast is threatened. Brack insists that the population is increasing so rapidly (by 23% a year) that the culling should not have any harmful long-range effect...