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...northern Maine. Among them: lack of money, environmental protests that it would flood a wilderness area and doubts about the benefit it would bring. But one threat to the project was a problem that seemed downright silly: the discovery of a few clumps of a greenish-yellow wild flower called the Furbish lousewort growing near the dam site. Because the plant, named for Botanist Kate Furbish, was not known to exist anywhere else, the dam location could conceivably have been ruled out under the 1973 Endangered Species...
...story into the paper without a recipe attached. Others suggest that the Times augment Living with a weekly section called Dying, filled with obituaries and funeral-parlor ads, and launch a new insert called News. A hapless reporter, so one routine goes, was sent to cover a flower show for Living, missed the crucial unveiling of a new strain of begonia and, as punishment, was made a foreign correspondent...
...shifting pictorial backgrounds-sometimes raw and powerful, sometimes peaceful-are remarkably varied: newsreels of the Chicago riots, the Selma civil rights march, Charles Manson, the flower children putting daisies into rifle barrels, the death of Bobby Kennedy...
Married. Brenda Vaccaro, 36, throaty-voiced star of Broadway (Cactus Flower), film (Midnight Cowboy's kinky "fur coat lady"; Golden Globe Award for Once Is Not Enough) and television; and William Spenser Bishop, 35, a Sun Valley, Idaho, attorney; she for the second time, he for the first; in Dallas...
...Hotels/Motels: ample. Ten within 10 min. Amenities: excellent. Lounges pleasant and comfortable. Good coffee shop open until 7:30 p.m. (beef tacos, $2.50); crowded self-service cafeteria. Best restaurant: Crossroads West. Six bars, most open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Shopping facilities: offbeat. Western and Indian wares. Spanish shop, flower stall with fresh-cut Colorado varieties. One barbershop. Private changing rooms with basins and toilets. Extra-long lockers and free plastic bags for skis. First-aid station; 24-hr, ambulance. Overall: pleasantly oldfashioned...