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Most heartening to conservationists was the commission's condemnation of Consolidated Edison's plan for a huge hydroelectric power plant at the base of brooding Storm King Mountain, at the famed north gate to the majestic Hudson Highlands.* Governor Rockefeller, who had earlier supported the $162 million Con Ed project, backed off after his brother criticized it, said that "if another solution can be found, it should be." The commission chided local government for failure to request federal beautification and urban-renewal money, noted that the latter could open up rotting waterfronts and create little "fishermen...
...days a week"), he reported that a hit-run driver had killed his bird dog ("His name was Pete. He was just a dog, a 15-month-old pointer"), and he took an ad to thank the mayor for removing a sign that had been posted near his gate. In a tartly humorous public notice in the Weekly Eagle, he dressed down hunters who were invading his property: "The posted woods on my property inside the city limits of Oxford contain several tame squirrels. Any hunter who feels himself too lacking in woodcraft and marksmanship to approach a dangerous wild...
...called his performance "a sovereign victory." Kidd's second-place finish was pretty remarkable too, considering that the shorter special slalom, not the 'giant slalom, is his specialty. Kidd proved next day that he needed no alibis. Crouched low over his skis, he flashed through the 56 gates and zipped across the finish line in 1 min. 49.59 sec. No one came really close -including Killy, who crashed headlong into a gate at 45 m.p.h. and was disqualified...
...Either transit fares or real estate taxes seem sure to go up in San Francisco because of the costly settlement that ended New York City's twelve-day transit strike. Transit wages in the Golden Gate city are tied by contract formula to those in New York, highest in the nation. As a result, San Francisco's transit wage bill could rise by $572,000 a year next July 1 and by another $1,600,000 a year in 1967. Meeting that cost would require a 100 rise in realty taxes, from today's rate...
Silver Tankard. Guinness' principal product, however, will always continue to be beers brewed pretty much as they have been for two centuries. In 1759, looking for a place to invest a ?100 inheritance, Arthur Guinness leased a bankrupt brewery beside the Liffey River; the St. James's Gate plant is still the company's principal operation, has grown into a 63-acre sprawl that is one of the world's largest breweries. The chairman's job and brewing secrets have since passed regularly from father to son except in one case. Viscount Elveden...