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Mediterranean immigrants tend to shun the traditional pubs-and-beer culture, and have led the way to a three fold increase in wine consumption in the past decade. The new residents are occasionally criticized for working too hard and spending too little, but there has been surprisingly little violence or tension between old and new Australians, or among the immigrants themselves...
...Fight or Fold. Some of Fleet Street's newer and more modern-minded proprietors, such as Canadian-born Thomson and Rupert Murdoch (TIME, Jan. 12, 1970), are trying to hold the line on budgets and resist union demands. Despite the folding of the Sketch, labor shows no signs of surrendering any of its prerogatives, even at the risk of putting thousands more out of work. Of the "popular" papers, the conservative Daily Express (circ. 3,500,000) and the pro-Labor Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000) remain profitable, although both have been losing readers lately to Murdoch...
Forced urbanization, forced conscription into the military, a proposed eight-fold expansion of the militia, and a 50 per cent increase in the size of the paramilitary police force (the South Vietnamese police use tanks and armored personnel carries)-these are the policies Richard Nixon endorses, the policies which will give the Saigon regime a "chance...
CLEAR CREEK is perhaps the best of the many new ecology magazines. A quarter-fold tabloid in the manner of such hip-style San Francisco predecessors as Rolling Stone and the late Earth Times, the 500 monthly is described, somewhat pretentiously, by Editor Pennfield Jensen as "a journal of the bio-renaissance dedicated to positive thought and action. " The first issue examined in detail the whys and wherefores of the big January oil spill in San Francisco Bay and publicized a little-known fight to save an obscure Texas wilderness known as Big Thicket. The current number contains a well...
Needed Regulation. By contrast, many expert witnesses argued that clear-cutting is ecologically damaging. Hurlon Ray, director of the Northwest regional office of the Federal Water Quality Office, contended that such logging can cause a 7,000-fold increase in stream sedimentation and destroy fish-breeding grounds. It also reduces food sources for birds and small mammals. Beyond all that, clear-cutting is unsightly, at least to those who value national forests as something far different from the "tree farms" that loggers favor...