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...projected Mission 66 for the National Parks is constructive, and the Parks have received more funds under this Administration than previously. He has sold some dispensable, scattered public lands, and he and Secretary of Agriculture Benson sometimes stepped in to prevent wanton timbering on the public domain. McKay also protected the world's last 28 whooping cranes by blocking an Air Force plan to practice night photoflash bombing near the cranes' refuge...
America's natural resources are strictly limited, and their preservation requires a careful, foresighted use of them. For hydro-electrical potential and public lands, for wildlife and fisheries management, for all the resources under the public domain, the America of tomorrow requires that we turn our backs on the wasteful ways of today, that we hold firm to what remains and use it wisely in the years to come...
...rifles, and he likes to slip quietly out of Moscow to the water meadows of the Ukraine to bag a string of ducks. Last week Nikita Khrushchev traveled all the way to Yugoslavia to indulge his hobby in one of Europe's more exclusive hunting grounds: the vast domain at Belje, once a sporting ground of the Habsburg princes, now a model "socialist farm" and preserve of Marshal Tito and his cronies. In a happy day's hunting Khrushchev potted three chamois, one stag. But even as the guns barked at Belje, it was evident-and local Communists...
...saved enough money as a reporter to buy his first newspaper 41 years ago, shrewd Oscar Stauffer, 69, has bought twelve small dailies (total circ. 110,000) and three radio stations,* chiefly in Kansas and the Midwest. Last week, at a single stroke, Stauffer took over the vaster domain (total circ. 5,000,000) of another self-made publisher, Kansas' late Senator Arthur Capper. Reported purchase price...
...violinist and teacher. A handsome, strongly built fellow with a resonant voice, he was soon speaking of music as another merchant might of hardware, and selling it as enthusiastically. In 1915 he became manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra, then founded his own concert agency. Gradually he added to his domain: in 1922 he became business manager of the New York Philharmonic, and in 1927 he became a co-founder of the Columbia Broadcasting System, gleefully predicting an immense shortage of artists as radio grew...