Word: less
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hundreds of rugged American "sportsmen" are blazing a trail of gouged hillsides, crushed and broken vegetation, and discarded beer cans. As with racing cars and dragsters, I would like to see certain less aesthetic areas set aside for the exclusive use of such machinery. The remaining wildlands should be closed to such off-the-road vehicles before what is left of their solitude, scenic beauty and scientific value is forever lost...
...building has the backing of Mayor Joseph Alioto ("a very welcome addition to the city's skyline"), the San Francisco Chronicle ("will become one of the best known structures in the world"), and leading businessmen who are worried about the recent flight of major firms to less congested sites on the other side of the Bay. Last week San Francisco's Board of Supervisors removed the last obstacle to construction when it granted Transamerica the right to close off and build upon a short stretch of Merchant Street. Now Transamerica has the ground footage it needs, and construction...
...Northwest Passage could provide the answer. If the Manhattan's journey is a success, the way would be open to haul North Slope crude to the U.S. for 60? a barrel less than the cost of piping the oil from Prudhoe Bay to the ice-free southern Alaska port of Valdez for shipment to the Pacific Coast. This would not only make North Slope drilling practical and profitable, but would encourage development of Alaska's huge deposits of iron, sulfur, copper and other minerals. The Manhattan expedition could provide other benefits as well. By opening up the Northwest...
...Valiant chassis, powered by a 130-h.p. engine. At week's end, Chairman Lynn Townsend disclosed that Chrysler will bring out the smallest of the new U.S. compacts in mid-1971. Called "the 25 Car," it will have a wheelbase of only 91 in., about 3 in. less than that of a Volkswagen. > GENERAL MOTORS has spent more than $100 million building a plant to assemble its entry in the small-car market. Code-named the XP877, the new car will be some 10 in. shorter than the Maverick. It will be powered by an aluminum four-cylinder engine...
Died. Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, 85, British novelist whose 19 books provided an acerbic commentary on the Edwardian era; in London. Dame Ivy cared little for plot and less for scene setting; her regiment-sized casts of disembodied characters came and went like ghosts in a dank country estate. Yet she was a master of dialogue, uncovering the tragicomic foibles of upper-class England in such books as The Mighty and Their Fall and Bullivant and the Lambs...