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...unique bright land is increasingly defiled by badly located freeways and housing subdivisions and industries which needlessly destroy beautiful scenery and entomb agricultural land; by reservoirs and watercourses which unwittingly encourage the growth of mislocated communities; by waste products; by cars and jeeps and cycles which pre-empt our very living and breathing space. Already, the state's nose is bloody. How long before its whole magnificent body is beaten to deformity? How long before the bright lands are dead lands?" Every Californian can cite his own pet example of the slurban blight. In San Francisco, the famed waterfront...
Mintz noted that the bill leading to the planning of an art center provided for $5 million to be spent on "recreation," and he raised the question, "Is an art center recreation?" He also pointed out that the lease, which would pre-empt the long-established Met Harness Track, does not delineate the exact site of the proposed theatre, leaving a possible means to open further discussion of MeBAC...
...plus interest, Cinemactor Ernest (Marty) Borgnine went on record to say that sudden success in the movies is not necessarily followed by sudden riches in real life. On Borgnine's last movie, the holders of his contract (Hecht-Lancaster) allegedly exercised their contractual right to pre-empt his services, then lent him out to do the same movie he was negotiating for. His contract-holders got "at least $75,000." Borgnine got $15,000. The movie: The Best Things in Life Are Free...
Italian and Greek relatives of U.S. residents are filling up the quotas from those countries -because Congress permitted the relatives of constituents to pre-empt the refugee quotas. But no action has yet been taken on the amendments proposed by President Eisenhower to liberalize...
...mansion at Fort McNair. When the new Joint Chiefs were appointed last May, Collins saw trouble ahead. If Admiral Arthur Radford, new boss of the JCS. followed Bradley's precedent and moved into Quarters I, Collins reasoned, then General Matthew Ridgway, Collins' own successor, would probably pre-empt the house at Fort McNair, and Collins would be househunting again...