Word: forested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JACOB SIMCHA COHEN Forest Hills...
...last of the miners had left by the turn of the century, and it was not until four years ago that a new band of prospectors returned to Mineral King. Financed by the late Walt Disney, they systematically surveyed the Sierra woodland-now a part of a national forest. Finally they suggested that Mineral King's real riches could be realized in 20th century America as a year-round vacation resort. It sounded at first like a sterling idea to almost everyone concerned. Last week, however, when the Disney group's plans were given final approval...
...Bitter Woods is a reconstruction of one of the general's finest hours when, as Allied Supreme Commander, he met Hitler's final desperate offensive in the Ardennes forest and bloodily threw it back. As young Eisenhower writes of what came to be known as the Battle of the Bulge, the reader almost hears the father's voice in the slightly formal prose relieved by occasional flashes of good humor...
...member of the San Francisco school, Gary Snyder writes primarily from his modern Western background and the influences of his journey to the Far East. This new collection contains four sections: those poems written before 1956, when he was working as a logger and forest ranger; those composed between 1956 and 1964 in Japan, where he studied Zen; those influenced by his visit to India; and those completed on his return to the U.S. In all, the mark is of the imagist poet concentrating on the pure intensity of the picture...
...Degree of Respect. Rowe described his long internment on his return to the U.S. en route to his home in McAllen, Texas. During the last 14 months, he lived in a wooden roofed cage deep in the forest ("You sometimes question whether it's built for an animal or a human"). During the day, he was allowed to venture only 125 feet away from his "hooch," and spent most of his time cutting firewood, setting traps and snares for mice, snakes and wild animals that would spice up his daily diet of rice and fish. He tried to keep...