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When Van sang "Astral Weeks" last Friday at the Orpheum, it wasn't the same. It was tighter, more solid, like the music he's made since the album Astral Weeks. At one point during his performance of "Cypress Avenue," the strongest song on that album and the one closest to his work on Blowin' Your Mind, he said, "I don't wanna tell you about all of that Belfast pain and suffering." With that statement he summed up his music after Moondance: a more joyous, tighter, harder rock music, like his early music, but much more secure lyrically. There...
Interior's most important accomplishments as he sees them: the $156 million federal acquisition of land in Florida's Big Cypress Swamp, addition of 40 million acres of excess federal property to the national park system, new urban-oriented parks like Gateway East and Gateway West, and an end to the use of predator poisons on public lands...
...dramatize an Administration plan to purchase 565,000 acres of Florida's Big Cypress Swamp for a federal water reserve, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton and Presidential Daughter Julie Eisenhower went swamp walking-right up to the edge of an alligator hole. No alligators. So Julie slogged around happily in her borrowed hip boots. "The water felt good," she chortled. "My feet were...
Star Spangled Girl declares itself fervently in favor of mindlessness in all forms. Despite herself, the girl falls for one of the journalists. She boards a Greyhound for her home in Cypress Gardens, Fla., presumably in order to recover from her passion. The lovesick radical pursues her on his motorcycle and woos her off the bus by vowing to take her home and make her a sex object, an appeal that for some unexplained reason enchants...
Last week President Nixon announced that he would ask Congress to authorize acquisition of 547,000 of Big Cypress' acres. The reason, he said, is to save them "from private development." Nixon thus outflanked Democratic Senators who already had mapped plans to protect the swamp. The cost of federal acquisition, said Interior Secretary Rogers Morton, will be "considerably in excess of $100 million," spread over the next decade...