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...disruption," says State Representative Dorothy Bradley. But the legislature recently voted down her bill setting a 2½-year moratorium to study these problems before coal mining begins on a massive scale. Thus there seem to be radical changes in the future of the big sky country, highlighting a dilemma that will become increasingly familiar as the natural resources of the U.S. become scarcer: Should the residents of one region of the nation be asked to give up their land and traditions for the good of other Americans living hundreds of miles away...
Still, most societies contain more-or-less serious film buffs paying at least lip service to the notion of "quality" films. The near-universal explanation of the encroachment of commercialism is exemplified by Quincy Cinema's dilemma. "It sort of galls me to be showing spaghetti westerns," says Wooley. "It's not good cinema; you can see them anywhere. But otherwise we'd lose our shirts...
Other divorced men sometimes have trouble getting all of their agreed-upon visitation rights, but Leonhard soon found that he was involved in an extraordinary dilemma. His ex-wife had married a convicted robber who became an informant against the Mafia, and the sudden disappearance of Leonhard's children had been masterminded with impregnable expertise by the U.S. Government...
...possible solution to the dilemma would be an international fund to enable each country to protect its treasures, and then a systematic, international sharing-on a long-loan basis -or swapping, so each country could broaden its collections. Italy, for example, could swap a vase for a French impressionist painting. Failing that, museums must become more scrupulous. A group of museums in the U.S. has already taken the first significant step. In recent years policy statements have been issued by the Field Museum, the University Museum in Carbondale, Ill., the University Museum in Pennsylvania and all the collections of Harvard...
Pitching coach Bob Lincoln is faced with the type of dilemma that coaches like to have. He must reduce his pitching staff from 15 candidates to about half that number. Roz Brayton will return to lead the staff with Sandy Weissant expected to grab the number two spot. Barry Malinowski, another returner from last spring, also appears set. Fighting for the remaining positions on the staff are Tom O'Neill, Norm Walsh, Mike O'Malley and Kim Schapport...