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...other is "out West," big and rough and physical. Massachusetts evokes Calvinism and Brahmins and John Kennedy. Texas is the fenceless dreamland of American individualism, where the native exuberance went to herd cows and sling guns and strike oil. It means Giant, Lyndon Johnson and everything bigger and louder than it ought...
Meanwhile, the din at the Grand Canyon seems to be growing louder. Hikers claim that the thwack-thwack and droning of aircraft echo constantly through the canyon. During a five-hour walk from an overlook known as Hermit's Rest to a station near Cope's Butte, one observer counted 16 helicopters, 36 fixed- wing planes and twelve jets. The constant barrage yielded few moments of uninterrupted serenity and nothing resembling hermitism. "They remind me of a bunch of little gnats, just swarming all around," says Sharon Galbreath, who chairs the Grand Canyon branch of the Sierra Club. Concurs Fred...
Meanwhile, the din at the Grand Canyon seems to be growing louder. Hikers claim that the thwack-thwack and droning of aircraft echo constantly through the canyon. During a five-hour walk from an overlook known as Hermit's Rest to a station near Cope's Butte, one observer counted 16 helicopters, 36 fixed- wing planes and twelve jets. The constant barrage yielded few moments of uninterrupted serenity and nothing resembling hermitism. "They remind me of a bunch of little gnats, just swarming all around," says Sharon Galbreath, who chairs the Grand Canyon branch of the Sierra Club. Concurs Fred...
Less visible but more formidable was the National Rifle Association, the powerful 3 million-member lobby that had pushed for looser gun controls with a $1.6 million campaign. In the end, N.R.A. muscle spoke louder than the policemen's protests. By a vote of 286 to 136, the House markedly weakened federal regulation of interstate gun trafficking, rewriting restrictions that had been passed in 1968 following the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. The outcome, said Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, was "a genuine disgrace. It's a classic example of the power...
...behind him, the cheers were getting louder...