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DEBORAH TOTTEN PERROTT Canoga Park, Calif...
...national park, which will open to hikers and campers in a few years, comprises 58,000 acres along Northern California's coast in Humboldt and Del Norte counties. 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...
Much of the credit for saving the redwoods belongs to the California-based Sierra Club and San Francisco's Save-the-Redwoods League, which was founded 50 years ago. Creation of the park comes none too soon. At the present rate of logging, the virgin stands of redwoods would last only another 20 years, a mere second in the lives of trees that were swaying in the Pacific breeze when Christ was born...
Harvard's super strong cross country team opens its 1968 season at Franklin Park today against Northeastern. It should not be a difficult test, although the Huskies did have a swift freshman squad last year...
...hero's climb to the roof of the orphanage to retrieve a lost ball. This is only one of the many small human truths that Director Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob) presents to delight and surprise the eye. A phalanx of nannies march through Hyde Park as though each tree and blade of grass belonged to them. The faces of children playing a game evoke the whole mysterious mosaic of human diversity. The interior decoration of an old thief's brand-new flat hits just the right level of department-store-modern respectability...