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...campaign, a sharp contrast to a heavyhanded one waged two years ago on behalf of a transportation bond issue. That was defeated, and the moral might be that voters do not like to be bludgeoned into action. In New Jersey a proposed $650 million transportation issue was defeated. The conservationist Sierra Club was successful in its determined campaign to convince New Jerseyites that the bill called for too much money for road building and not enough for mass transportation...
Italy and the Forum in particular are becoming a conservationist's nightmare. "It's no longer a matter of patching up this or that situation," said Minister Rodolfo Siviero. "It's a general collapse...
...response, however, the conservationist argument is that the public hardly benefits from office lights that burn all night, from the sealed glass buildings whose overworked air conditioners heat up the streets, or from the trash heaps that could be recycled into new products. Commoner, for one, estimates that a number of relatively simple changes like improved insulation in private homes, or the use of more steel and less aluminum in new cars, would make it possible to reduce present energy consumption by one-third...
...battle against the project began in 1963, when L.O. Rothschild, a New York attorney and conservationist, received his copy of Con Ed's 1962 annual report, containing an artist's rendering and description of the Storm King facility, Enraged, Rothschild wrote to The New York Times, and the Times, in an editorial, criticized the plan to "plunk down a couple of power in- stallations right in the heart of one of the most stunning natural regions in the eastern United States...
OUTFITTED in all that panoply of royal tradition, Queen Elizabeth's elite regiments have one natural enemy: the conservationist. On the head of every member of the Foot Guards, for example, rises half a Canadian bearskin; from the helmet of the Household Cavalryman sprouts a plume of yak hairs. Whenever the army's 88 military bands wheel into action, the soldiers who carry the big bass drums drape themselves in the skins of leopards and tigers...