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...became more and more vocal in battles over remaining hunks of wilderness. Stubbornness and publicity now have given it the de facto leadership of the conservation movement. Full of brilliant pictures by photographers like Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter--plus redolent quotes from Thoreau or Robinson Jeffers--its "Exhibit Format" books and paperbacks are selling quickly. Brower has edited most of them. The Coop can't keep Sierra Club posters in stock. The Club counts a growing number of allies in Congress. And since a run-in with Internal Revenue over its tax-exempt status, its membership has been growing...
BROWER has put the Sierra Club in its position of leadership because he knows how to advertise and has enlisted the support of professional advertising men. The Exhibit Format books and posters are designed to attract buyers and to leave a message. Sierra Club films are available to groups, and organized trips into the wilderness grow more popular every year. Now he is planning buttons and bumper stickers--on pollution ("Keep Our Air Visible") or population ("How Dense Can People Be?", "Good Breeding Can Be Overdone"), or just for irony: "Save the Pan Am Building." While other groups...
Good News. The show's producers like to say that the format follows an old trusted formula-something old and new, borrowed and blue. But Laugh-In has something far better than formula jokes: topical satire that is biting without being bitter...
...device would tend to undercut disk sales. On the other hand, many industry sources privately agree with the prediction of Rein Narma, consumer-products manager for Ampex, which markets all three types of tape. "We believe very strongly," says Narma, "that the cassette will be the eventual surviving tape format, and it is possible that within ten years it will make major inroads into the disk format...
...spartan format (29 pages mimeographed on one side and stapled together by hand) derives from the fresh and deliberate lack of pretense which has become The Island's trademark. This makes it an appropriate outlet for its material: "It allows us to print things which might not be perfect, but which ought to be read," as one of the three editors explains...