Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion, down a painful 33% from the alltime high in 1973. The average farm family will earn only $5,300 this year, excluding off-the-farm income. As Washington Rancher Lee McGuire says, "Some farmers are absolutely flat-ass broke." Among the flattest are young farmers who bought their land and machinery in the early 1970s when prices were high and saddled themselves with heavy mortgages...
Similarly, Kerry Konrad spoils what is almost a very effective portrayal of the king by striving for but never quite realizing the power of his role. Konrad is good in the opening scenes, wearied and saddened into bitterness over the trouble in his family and in the land, and again, in his meeting with Hal, when he shows disappointment and displeasure. But Konrad does not add enough depth to this character whose experiences frame the play. And of his courtiers, only John Goerner, as the wicked Earl of Worcester, as conniving as he appears to be composed, adds an interesting...
LIFE ON THE PLANET earth commenced around three billion years ago in the fertile, seething seas. Eventually creatures left the water to try to survive on land. One form of life that evolved was a child-bearing, milk-suckling mammal. But about 50 million years ago some of the mammals that had formed the habit of eating fish returned to the seas. They were the ancient ancestors of the modern Cetacea--dolphins, porpoises and whales...
...land mammal, man, has been waging war on the sea mammals, Cetacea, for centuries. Archeologists believe Alaskan Eskimos have been whaling for over 2000 years. But some groups have been working to even the odds for the whales. In recent years controversy has arisen over whether the Eskimos should be allowed to continue killing the bowhead whale...
ALASKA. COLD, sparkling rivers, fast-flowing beneath a deep and cloudless sky. Where moose and caribou abound and where the awesome grizzly can change that with one swipe of his five-inch claws. Land of the soaring, snow-capped mountain, Denali ("The High One" "The Mighty One") which a young Princeton graduate renamed in 1896 when, upon his return from an Alaskan prospecting adventure, he learned that William McKinley had won the Republican nomination for United States President. Alaska. Millions of untrammeled acres of rough, unpolite land, where a man can live in a kind of freedom inconceivable...