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...environment movement. All across the country, at conferences and campfires and on campuses, the two minstrels denounce development and pollution and plead for the rescue of endangered animals. Their music never hits the Top 40, but many a member of the Sierra Club or the National Audubon Society can hum their tunes and recite their lyrics by heart. To thousands of nature lovers, Oliver and Waldeck are to environmentalism what Bob Dylan and Joan Baez were to the antiwar movement...
...Hungary, as they attempt to loosen the shackles of the Communist economic system, seemed to be just another example of big talk and small deeds -- an impression offset only slightly when Congress pressured him to increase a proposed grant to Poland from a measly $115 million to a ho-hum $315 million...
...rural Montana and is a consulting geologist, says little about his writing career. He reveals that he is a poetic observer of the earth's surface as well as its depths, ever alert to the sounds of silence -- a cricket, a katydid, a car passing in the distance, the hum of a freezer. Crisp winter walks during his college days at Utah State made him feel like "the president of snow...
...Democratic leadership, House majority leader Tom Foley should emit that almost audible hum of ambition that can be heard at the upper reaches of political power. But no, not a sound. It took considerable pushing and prodding to get him to enter politics at all. And when he did jump ( in, it was "accidents," he insists, that kept advancing his career. "The important thing," he says, "is to be prepared when an opportunity comes your...
...beckoning titles with the indifference of a hardened vice cop. "Victimless crime -- crap," he whispers. "Follow me." The white-haired Hurlbut eases his 225- lb. frame through an entrance marked PEEP SHOWS and into a darkened warren of viewing rooms. In each of the empty plywood cubicles, VCRs still hum, and the trappings of recent sexual activity abound. "The average guy has no idea what scumbags these places are," he snaps...