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Timber men are looking to Congress for relief. If the Monongahela decision is applied nationally, they say, the results would surely include: 1) a 10% drop in production of softwood, 2) the layoff of 130,000 workers, 3) shortages of everything from hardwood railroad ties to toilet paper, and 4) average increases of $2,400 in the cost of wood for a single-family home-enough to hurt the home-building industry, which is finally pulling out of its recession. In addition, the industry and the Forest Service argue that clear-cutting makes good conservation sense. It is little different...
...ECAC plunks this select breed of traffic cops on to inhospitable hardwood floors to oversee the rough and tumble of collegiate basketball, as they are buffeted up and down the court for 40 minutes by the breakneck action that dominates today's brand of play...
...years, the Mormons have allowed the orchestra free use of the Tabernacle, the famed meetinghouse built in the 1860s under the eye of Brigham Young. The edifice has been a mixed blessing: it has no lobby (latecomers must wait outside), no toilet facilities and no upholstery upon its hardwood benches. Its acoustics are very tricky: a tourist standing 200 feet away can hear a pin drop on stage, but the echo from the vaulted ceiling can be so bad that a new drummer once played the entire Ravel Bolero four beats late. The new arts center will be ready...
...their new book, "Embarrassed And Harassed In the IAB," by splitting two contests this past weekend. Going from the ridiculous to the expected, the cagers fell to Brown, one of the worst teams in the country, by a 58-56 margin on Friday night, before defeating Yale, another hardwood lightweight, 73-63 on Saturday...
...prospects for winning are not very bright. Ever since the use of DDT was banned in 1967, Maine has had few weapons in its battle against the budworm. Environmentalists have suggested gradually cutting down the spruce and balsam trees to deny the caterpillar its food and replacing them with hardwood varieties immune to attack. But that plan is not practical; spruce and balsam are best adapted to the north woods and, says Fred Holt, director of Maine's bureau of forestry, "they always come back when you plant something else." Biological controls-most notably one that involves spraying...