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...against the project have hit McKay's desk. Reason: professional nature lovers like Bernard DeVoto, Richard Neuberger and Wallace Stegner, all of whom wear shoes and live in houses while writing about the great outdoors, have raised an outcry because the project would flood part of Dinosaur National Monument...
...land registrar from a New Year's Eve dance to file his claim at Beatrice, Neb., later built a log cabin for his family and planted 400 peach trees on his 160-acre quarter section. Typically, Interior has since reclaimed the claim. Now it's Homestead National Monument...
...deserts flower. The Interior Department is presently planning to irrigate the vast Upper Colorado Basin with two more great dams. In all, another 15 million acres of the waterless West can be economically reclaimed. The rest may forever remain lunar landscape, like Green River's grotesque canyon and Monument Valley's stark buttes (see color pages...
...Tokyo last week guidebooks heralded a monument Publisher Shoriki had raised to himself. He opened a 436-ft. TV tower, one of the tallest structures in the city, equipped with an elevator so that sightseers can "get a view of Tokyo equal to the birds'." Said Publisher Shoriki matter-of-factly: "The people of Japan expect Shoriki to do things bigger and better than anyone else...
...bomb's destructive radius would make the base untenable in a major war. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler then got up to say that he was not prepared to continue spending ?50 million yearly to maintain the canal base as an imperial monument...