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Wolfe blamed Gropius for today's "hotel rooms that look like the inside of a Westclox alarm clock box" and homes that resemble "the engine room of the Grand Coulee Dam...
...planning, tougher controls on air and water pollution and a bill that would "require reclamation of the land as a condition of strip mining." One of Carter's villains is the U.S. Army's Corps of Engineers, which he claims is far too eager to build dams that end up drowning scenic areas. Carter promises in campaign speeches "to put the Corps of Engineers out of the dam-building business." The environment is an issue on which Carter has a well-established record. While serving as Governor of Georgia, he managed to block the Army - although...
...Swiss Alps 400 workers are in their fourth year of construction on a huge three-dam hydroelectric complex designed to provide Switzerland with all its electricity upon completion in two years...
...Cher, Hall and Oates, Stiller and Meara, Leopold and Loeb, local starving artists in the street, they're all into it. Hendrix and Joplin are releasing posthumous albums of it. Disco. May the Good Lord take me, take us all, to the great Disco in the sky. The dam has burst, and vapidity in three-quarter time now envelopes us all. Yea, though I Hustle through the Valley of the Shadow...
...defeat of the dam builders helps assure the continued existence of one of the few free-flowing or undammed rivers left in the East and preserves the almost unlimited recreational opportunities it provides for campers and canoers. It also helps to preserve a way of life that is well worth saving. North Carolina's mountaineers know that they could make more money by abandoning their farms and moving to the cities, but most prefer to stay where they are. "I don't need a new job," says Sturgill, gesturing toward his well-tended corn and tobacco fields...