Word: gale
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Official Anger. Vogan's disclosures provoked a storm of official anger in the capital. Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton proclaimed the shootings a "national outrage," and his department promised to prosecute the hunters. Agents dispatched to Wyoming by Senator Gale McGee, before whose committee Vogan testified, had also found evidence of "substantial, willful and deliberate slaughtering of eagles." Last week McGee's men found proof: a cache of about 60 eagles, badly decomposed and buried six feet deep under the remains of other animals...
...Agnew abroad is dignified, correct and, above all, distant, the gracious teatime and dinner companion of potentates and princes, ministers and maharajahs. Tall and tanned, he is meticulous to the point of having every last hair in place, even after stepping out of a minor gale. He has done his homework. In private talks and ceremonial functions, Agnew, from all available evidence, has performed flawlessly. Perhaps too flawlessly...
Applications to the Business School fell for the first time in a decade to 3400 for the Class of 1973 compared to 3800 for the Class of 1972, Gale D. Merseth, director of M.B.A. admissions, said last Wednesday...
...Washington to protest the Forest Service's actions before the Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands. In Montana's 1,575,000-acre Bitterroot National Forest, argued Guy M. Brandborg, a former Forest Service official, clear-cutting has caused widespread erosion, threatening watersheds, wildlife and recreation. Wyoming Senator Gale McGee said that instead of regenerating naturally after clearcutting, as the Forest Service claims, the forests often have to be replanted with seedlings, a difficult and hazardous task, especially on steep slopes. McGee also said that timber companies favor clear-cutting over selective cutting (the removal of only ripe...
...parody? Of course. But with colors reversed, a very similar scenario has been played out at New York's Whitney Museum around a show that opens this week called "Black Artists in America." Of 75 black artists chosen by Curator Robert M. Doty, 15 have withdrawn amid a gale of controversy...