Word: muir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from attempting the same tactic to force the expulsion of Israel? And the people most sorely hurt by the I.O.C. action are South Africa's athletes. For Sprinter Paul Nash, who last month tied the 100-meter world record four times in eight days, or for Swimmer Karen Muir, the world's No. 1 backstroker, it means losing a crack at Olympic gold medals. Both Nash and Muir are white. For the blacks on South Africa's team, the loss is even greater: a chance to compete for the first time on an integrated basis-thereby carving...
...sorts of human stuff is being poured into our valley this year," lamented Conservationist John Muir about the crush of crowds in California's Yosemite Valley. That was in 1870, when Yosemite counted its annual visitors in the thousands. This year 1,700,000 people are expected to come geysering into the national park, and the overcrowding is becoming so severe that many will wonder why they ever left home...
...early Americans could hardly imagine getting through it all, much less ruining it. President Grant, who established the first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, acted not so much to conserve as to foil a group of land speculators. The real father of conservation is considered to be John Muir, a California naturalist, who in 1890 persuaded the Federal Government to take over the Yosemite Valley and the lands around...
...until the turn-of-the-century Administration of outdoor-loving Teddy Roosevelt that the country got into preservation in a big way. Influenced early in life by Muir and later by Gifford Pinchot, McKinley's chief forester, Roosevelt began by pressing for water conservation in the arid West. He won the power to establish the nation's natural and historical treasures as national monuments, then ingeniously outflanked an attempt to wipe out many of the nation's national forests. Faced with a forest-eliminating rider to a bill for much-needed funds, Teddy responded with wilderness-bred...
Others were quick to queue up. Jean Muir, also 30, bolted her stockroom job at London's Liberty's, moved in on the boom with a fanciful collection of narrow coats, smock dresses and knickers that nick off just above the knee. Sally Tuffin, 26, and Marion Foale, 25, the pop artists of the group, popped up with wild prints, impossible color combinations and a dress, called "Gruyere," with holes in its sleeves...