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Heidi Kolberg Grand Forks...
...that Democrats are far less eager to look into Koreagate, which chiefly involves Democrats, than they were to pursue Republicans implicated in Watergate. Still, as a House ethics committee staffer explains, "there is no smoking pistol." For one thing, although investigators have called more than 70 witnesses before a grand jury, they have not been able to establish whether Park was a South Korean agent; if he was, he broke U.S. law by not registering with the Justice Department, and the Congressmen may have broken the law by accepting campaign gifts from him. Nor is there any evidence of what...
Even the less active will find the parks fascinating, and why not? Viewing the strata exposed by the river in the Grand Canyon, the wind-weathered landscape of Bryce Canyon or the waterworn stalactites of Carlsbad Caverns is like looking backward through time. To watch an alligator glide through the Everglades is to see a world still unsullied by technology. Seeing a black bear beg for food beside a highway in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (the most popular in the system, with 11.4 million visitors last year) is proof that even in this age of the atom...
...foreigners. Of the seven top attractions for visitors from abroad, six are National Parks: Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Mount McKinley, Redwood, Hawaii Volcanoes and Everglades. Third on the list and the only non-park is Niagara Falls...
Beyond that, one must regretfully conclude that Gregory Peck is not the ideal choice to play MacArthur. He is a pleasant man, good at playing troubled, conscientious, reasonable characters. But he is perhaps the least self-centered of actors, and while he tries hard to adopt the grand MacArthur manner he just cannot manage it. The fire, the touch of lunacy, is not there, though Peck does nicely in the first and last scenes when he portrays the aged general, flames banked, the mood autumnal...