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...Bureau of Land Management used almost 2,000 men to combat the fires. Six hundred men equipped with bulldozers, helicopters and Army personnel carriers struggled to contain the West Fork holocaust by bulldozing a line in its path. Smoke jumpers, some of them imported from Montana, parachuted into the forests with digging equipment; six converted B-25 bombers dropped chemical retardants on the fires. 150 Years to Grow. Normally, rain controls the blazes that start each summer, but this has been an extraordinarily dry season for Alaska. Chicken, for example, has had no rain since early May. Though lightning started...
...flame leaped 3,000 ft., followed by a coiling pillar of oily black smoke that rose five miles and was visible 150 miles offshore. Exclaimed Commander Charles R. Smith, 39, of Dalhart, Texas, who wrestled his Vigilante reconnaissance plane through the heat and flames to photograph the holocaust: "It looked as if we had wiped out the entire world's supply...
...Mutilated) or attempts religious allegories (Milk Train) in which symbols masquerade as wonders. Arthur Miller thumbs disconsolately through a three-hour "Dear Diary" (After the Fall), making moralistic marginal notes on his past. Edward Albee has been a ventriloquist rather than a voice ever since he lit that verbal holocaust between the sexes, Virginia Woolf...
...population centers in North Viet Nam, Britain would disavow its support. On the other hand, he said, Britain would not withdraw from Asia and leave it "to the Americans and Chinese, eyeball to eyeball, to face this thing out." That, said Wilson, "is the surest prescription for a nuclear holocaust I could think of. 'World, go home' is not the posture for this party, and perfectionist solutions, however cathartic and satisfying to their authors, do not bring peace." His performance was effective enough to bring at least temporary peace within his ranks. When it came to a vote...
Residue of Loyalty. To Orthodox Rabbi Irving Greenberg of Yeshiva University, history has already provided Judaism with the unity of shared experience: all Jews have been affected by the Westernization of their faith and culture, the Hitler holocaust, and the re-establishment of Israel as a nation. Nonetheless, Greenberg argues, Jewish unity seekers must face up to difficult issues. A problem facing all three branches of Judaism is that the majority of Jews are secularists living off a residue of "sentiment, loyalty and nostalgia which is vulnerable to the increasing inroads of contemporary culture...