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...conservation-minded citizens all over the U.S. Called National Parks for the Future and sponsored by Washington's respected Conservation Foundation, it bravely recommends a complete redefinition of the parks and their purpose. For one thing, the study says, parks proposed for locations near urban centers, like Gateway East on New York Harbor or Gateway West outside San Francisco, should not be part of the national system, but should be run by the states or cities that use them. Nor do the 172 historic areas, like Gettysburg, and the 37 National Recreation Areas, like man-made Lake Mead...
...political nerve center of the Common Market; London will become the financial center; Brussels is to remain the capital for "bread and butter" EEC problems like agriculture and tariffs; and West Germany will continue to be the Community's industrial heartland, with some vague status as commercial gateway to Eastern Europe. The other six nations will play "important roles" that are yet to be defined...
Interior's most important accomplishments as he sees them: the $156 million federal acquisition of land in Florida's Big Cypress Swamp, addition of 40 million acres of excess federal property to the national park system, new urban-oriented parks like Gateway East and Gateway West, and an end to the use of predator poisons on public lands...
...Christian centuries that followed were more plainspoken. Tertullian reflected the mind of many early church fathers when he pronounced, in the 3rd century, that women were "the devil's gateway...
...move to the city. The rural poor, on the other hand, may well find life in the city more attractive and comfortable than their previous existence in the countryside. The urban slum, which seems so horrible to middle-class Americans, often becomes for the poor peasant a gateway to a new and better way of life. For some poor migrants, the wartime urban boom has made possible incomes five times those which they had in the countryside. In one Saigon slum, Xom Chua, in early 1965 before the American build-up, the people lived at a depressed level, with...