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...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...
...were an out-of-work construction worker in Maine, I would sure take care of the Furbish lousewort-probably at night...
Cornell has Bill Arthur, who is not exactly another Gary Wood. He is not a strong passer, but should contribute significantly to the ground attack. Also a possible replacement for the graduated Bill Robertson is Rick Furbish, a former end. Clearly, there is not another Brian Dowling at Yale. Probably there is not another Brian Dowling anywhere, whatever that means. His primary backup man. Bob Bayless, is no longer at Yale for academic reasons. At the moment, the two top candidates are Joe Massey and Chuck Sizemore. Massey earned experience on the junior varsity last year. Sizemore, a sophomore, passes...
...Louvre's main sections: French Medieval, Egyptian, Ancient Oriental and Greco-Roman. It was a sight to glad den any ordinary rider's eye, and even more pleased was the man behind the-innovation. He is André Malraux, Minister of Culture, and his efforts to re furbish the famed museum itself have been nicely complemented by the un derground mini-Louvre. On a private inspection tour, he told a friend: "Art must go down into the streets, and I'm very happy to see it going even deeper, into...
...striving to divide the U.S. from its European allies, particularly the Germans. The Russians are also thinking more and more of establishing themselves as a Mediterranean power, an old dream of the Czars that shows how firmly Communism in Russia has become wedded to traditional national interests. To furbish its image in the so-called "third world," Russia has floated nearly $6 billion in loans and credits to other countries since 1954, but it is learning, as the U.S. has, that these nations are usually greedy for more aid and ungrateful when they get it. As a result, a debate...