Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assault Watson as charged is still uncertain. Offner himself denied the charge, and the prosecution could produce no one other than Watson himself to testify that Offner was one of the people who evicted the dean from the building. The unfairness of Offner's conviction is underscored by the fact that Watson was unable to identify anyone else involved in evicting him, although he did admit that several other people pushed him. The atmosphere during the seizure was obviously confused and hectic, and it is hard to believe that Watson could have been certain about Offner's identity while being...
...state to set up an arts council. He loves to conduct bemused state legislators through the executive mansion past Calders, Picasso tapestries and Klees, pointing out their hidden beauties. "They have recognized that art is not a liability from a political point of view," he says with delight. In fact, the legislators have voted to open the capitol's corridors to exhibits of artists from different areas. Rockefeller is proudest of the part played by the Museum of Modern Art, for which he has twice served terms as president. The Modern's great achievement, he feels, has been...
...fact, some clerics in the diocese openly wonder why Leger bothered to come. The well-staffed leprosarium was founded by Bishop Loucheur and Sister Fran?oise Romaine 15 years ago, and now treats 3,000 patients at four clinics. Loucheur has also built a cathedral, numerous schools and 186 miles of roads, and has baptized 43,000 Africans. Léger's position is also ambiguous in the Cameroon capital of Yaounde, where he poses a protocol problem. "As a Cardinal," explains one official, "he outranks every diplomat in the country...
...fact, forest fires are actually beneficial in a way. They remove the climax vegetation--the tall aspen and spruce--and open up the land for other types of vegetation. Black bears fatten themselves for the winter on blueberries growing in old burns, and other animals also depend on the low shrubs and grasses that can only gain a toehold after a burn...
...this myopic viewpoint the fact that the fire suppression creates jobs in backwoods areas, and you have a magnificent sacred cow. Many Alaskan prospectors and Indians, for instance, depend heavily on firefighting for their annual grubstakes. It is widely believed, but yet to be proven, that native villagers start their own fires if their village crew has been idle during the fire season. Last year, the Federal Government spent $9.2 million in Alaska alone to suppress fires, most of which were started by lightning, and many of which occurred in distant wilderness areas. If controlled forest fires really...