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...sagebrush and grass over thousands of acres, next remove billions of tons of earth and rock, and finally gouge out the oil-shale beds 100 ft. to 850 ft. below the surface. The other technique, to be tried at the remaining leaseholds, will be to deep-mine with conventional pillar-and-room tunneling, as is done with coal-but on a gargantuan scale. More than 70,000 tons of oil shale might be moved daily from mine to processing plant. There, the shale would be crushed and heated to about 950° F. in retorts. The extracted oil would then...
...amazing. The only thing possibly more amazing is the number of Americans who continue to support the President simply because he is President or because their idle minds have been overwhelmed by one of his sentiment-laden speeches. For the man who used law-and-order as the pillar of his first campaign to now become the symbol of lawlessness is inexcusable hypocrisy, and to retain faith in him is absurd...
...current show is dominated by new, thrusting, pillar-like sculptures, which Nagare labels with obscurantic titles like Time and Motion. Some critics have decided that these dramatic works spring from Nagare's brief career assisting a maker of samurai swords. That may be, but Nagare himself takes no interest in the sword theory. Says he: "The only way possible to prevent myself from being overwhelmed by the great glories of nature at Shikoku is to turn incessantly erotic." Each tune he sculpts a male image, he counters it by making something female, like a small piece that started...
...only six miles over the horseshoe range from Washington to Adams, but the differences between the two mountains are immense. Adams, the opposite pillar of the horseshoe, presents a striking contrast to Washington. The steep and ragged upper reaches of the mountain culminate in a peak of one large rock which is unreachable except by foot. Only one trail, an offshoot of the Appalachian Trail, which skirts the peak, leads to the summit of Adams. Most hikers climbing over the whole range stay on the main trail so it is rare to meet other parties on the summit even...
...ought to rank high on Spiro Agnew's list of least favorite people. As early as the 1968 campaign, the Times infuriated Agnew by questioning his fitness "to stand one step away from the presidency." Reston, as vice president and chief political columnist of the paper, is a pillar of the Eastern liberal Establishment press that Agnew has been excoriating since 1969; the Times has often replied in stiff editorials. But during his current ordeal, Agnew has turned to Reston for counsel and a sympathetic...