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...Anyway Boston has been spawning its own opera companies so quickly that the Met's visit is no longer essential. The oldest and best is Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston, which attracted more than its share of national attention last year by producing Berlioz' Les Troyens, a mammoth two-part work that more established companies had been avoiding for years. Earlier this year the Boston Opera did a politicized Bartered Bride, and this weekend it's putting on Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment, with Kitty Carlisle of To Tell the Truth in a speaking role and Beverly...
...story behind the mammoth headline added only slight details to the banner introduction...
...When the Mammoth Mountain people read your story, you will have a lot more than a fractured tibia. It will take a dozen St. Bernards to sniff you out from under an avalanche of critical mail for ignoring that great ski resort...
...ground rules are changing -and radically. The first shock to developers came last September, when the state supreme court ruled on a case called Friends of Mammoth Mountain v. Mono County. The issue was whether the "spirit" of California's Environmental Quality Act of 1970, which requires state agencies to publish detailed reports on the environmental "impact" of their projects, also applied to private developers. The court, which has often acted as a trail blazer for other states, answered unequivocally: "To limit the operation of the E.Q.A. solely to what are essentially public works projects would frustrate the effectiveness...
Preserving Shores. While the Mammoth decision was creating these mammoth problems, the state's voters approved an initiative to control all development within 1,000 ft. of California's entire coastline. To continue any project started after last March 31, or to build any new project, developers would first have to get a permit from one of six new regional commissions. This slows the rush to build on the shore line-and theoretically prevents any environmentally harmful projects...