Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more generous Vietnam commentaries have made it clear that Vietnam reports were colored as much by the cultural biases of the American observers as they were by the Government policy of deliberate lying. In her recent exegesis of the war. Fire in the Lake, Frances Fitzgerald described the American fact finders...
...bottling company president who represents everything good about suburban life (a moral and compassionate individualism), and Bobby Trippe, a salesman, who does just about the opposite--Medlock and Gentry take on their state's largest, toughest river in canoes. The Cahulawassee is about to be dammed up, made into Lake Cabula for the economic sake of marinas and retirement homes. Medlock wants to move as one with this unbridled piece of nature before its force is shattered...
Starting with the creation of Yellowstone in 1872, Congress has step by step pioneered in establishing what is surely the world's greatest system of national parks-with tremendous new parks yet to be selected in Alaska. The system embraces the incense cedars and sapphire waters of Crater Lake in Oregon, the Great Smoky Mountains' misty rills in Appalachia, the giant cathedrals of California's redwoods, Arizona's mighty Grand Canyon, Maine's sparkling Acadia. Each park was chosen for its beauty and grandeur and preserved intact forever for public "enjoyment...
...Gateway East on New York Harbor or Gateway West outside San Francisco, should not be part of the national system, but should be run by the states or cities that use them. Nor do the 172 historic areas, like Gettysburg, and the 37 National Recreation Areas, like man-made Lake Mead on the Arizona-Nevada border, really fit the definition of unspoiled natural beauty. They should be removed from the National Park Service and operated by a separate federal bureau...
...Harris (4) 2-O Jerusalem!, Collins and Lapierre (2) 3-Eleanor: The Years Alone, Lash (3) 4-Open Marriage, Nona and George O'Neill (1) 5-The Peter Prescription, Pefer (5) 6-George S. Kaufman, Teichmann (6) 7-The Superlawyers, Goulcfen (7) 8-Fire in the Lake, FifzGerald 9-Ling, Brown 10-Paris Was Yesterday 1925-1939, Planner...