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When the U.S. Interior Department put the American alligator on its list of endangered species in 1967, conservationists were delighted. But poachers kept on killing the "gators," which grow up to 12 ft. in length, and selling the skins for as much as $9 per ft. To end the incentive for slaughtering the beasts, the Federal Government finally cracked down last year on businesses dealing in the hides. That move has worked too well. With no enemies left, the alligators are proliferating wildly, especially in Louisiana. Indeed, says Luke Petrovich, a county public-safety commissioner...
Indeed De Palma is particularly tough on the youths who invite people like Swan to swindle them. They are observed to grow as hysterical over a talentless transvestite swinger named Beef (played in the film's gaudiest comic turn by Gerrit Graham) as they do over the pure loveliness of Phoenix's voice. A wedding onstage turns them on, but so does an assassination. "That's entertainment!" Swan cries, and no one challenges his all-purpose definition of the term. The terrible possibility exists that he is right-that nowadays all turn-ons are equally transitory...
...Scout Handbook of the counterculture movement was The Last Whole Earth Catalog, published in 1971, which told the dropout generation where to get the information to do its own thing-cultivate organic food, build geodesic domiciles, grow pot. The volume went through 14 printings, sold 1.2 million copies, won a prestigious National Book Award and turned Publisher Stewart Brand, 35, into an old-fashioned capitalist...
...Harry Reasoner visited Ford at Camp David for a private interview and asked him: "Can you grow into the office...
Bernardin's tolerance of divergent views may well grow out of his background. The son of an immigrant stonemason from northern Italy, he grew up in heavily Protestant South Carolina, where, he told TIME Correspondent Richard Ostling, "I learned early in life how to live with people whose beliefs differ from my own." He attended public high school and the University of South Carolina before entering St. Mary...