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...Half the acreage comes from three small state forests that stretch south from near the Oregon border for about 33 miles along the coast. The Federal Government will complete the park by buying up the land in between the state parks from timber companies and private individuals for $92 million. Sequestered within the park will be 32,500 acres of virgin redwoods, including the world's tallest (367 feet) tree as well as the second, third and sixth highest...
...carefully exempted from that harsh regimen, however, and can be expected to remain so. Not surprisingly, they are daughters of the leadership-girls whom the Chinese, in pre-Communist days, called "gold boughs and jade leaves," or descendants of noble houses. Like the rest of China's 375 million women, they adhere to austere and sexless blue-uniformity in public. There the similarity, and the egalitarianism, ends. In the plush suburban villas that Peking's leaders call home, they enjoy servants...
...marble of the Parthenon atop the Acropolis. The sign spells out the Greek word NAÍ in letters 30 ft. high. All over Greece, on walls, buses, taxis, telephone poles, billboards, farm carts, beach huts and whitewashed windmills in the Aegean isles, posters urge: NAÍ. Next week 5 million Greeks will vote NAÍ (yes) or ÓXI (no) in a referendum on a new constitution drafted by the military junta that has ruled the country since it seized power 17 months ago. Even the most cautious analysts predict a minimum yes vote...
Next to overcrowding in the skies and on the ground, fogbound airports are the airlines' most vexing and expensive operational problem. Fog costs them some $75 million a year in flight delays, diversions and cancellations. Meteorologists have been battling it in various ways ever since the R.A.F.'s primitive World War II efforts to burn away British pea-soupers by placing barrels of flaming fuel along airport runways. Yet, to the airlines' annoyance, the most promising ventures in the laboratory have often proved impractical at the airfield...
Hyman has gone so far as to make a statistical study of his own. From 1950 to 1966, according to Hyman's figures, U.S. firms have increased their British investments 600%, from $840 million to $5.6 billion. Today, some 1,650 companies owned or controlled by U.S. interests provide jobs for 500,000 Britons, account for 10% of all British industrial sales-and are responsible for as much as 18% of British exports. "There has been vociferous criticism of American enterprise seizing the so-called new 'commanding heights' of our economy," says Hyman. "I can only observe...