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...imitate anyone," he said, "but John Glenn." In a sense he is doing a self-impersonation: after down-playing his astronaut background through much of the campaign, he used "the right stuff' as a tag line in his Southern television ads and played up his military past. In Pine Bluff, Ark., he piloted an antique Stearman training biplane ("That was fun!" he said) and at Ozark, Ala., drove an M-60 tank in figure eights ("That...
...some sections of Georgia and South Carolina, yellow pine trees seem to be growing much more slowly than they once did. In southern New Jersey, patches of pitch pines have stopped growing altogether. So have parcels of spruce trees on Whiteface Mountain in New York. On Camels Hump, a major peak in Vermont's Green Mountain range, and Mount Mitchell in North Carolina, the highest peak in the East, red spruce are losing their foliage and dying, leaving barren patches on the once lush slopes. Says Botanist Hub Vogelmann of the University of Vermont: "There are some pretty...
...gather evidence of damage, the U.S. Forest Service each decade resurveys thousands of one-acre plots, checking the diameter and height of trees and looking for portents of new growth. The ongoing survey of Southern Piedmont woodlands shows that in the past ten years the growth rate of loblolly pine, a coniferous evergreen, has been 25% less than expected. Botanist Vogelmann's 20-year study of Camels Hump has shown a rapid decline in nine species of trees on the 4,083-ft. peak. The biomass (the combined weight of tree trunk, branches and foliage) has dropped sharply...
...Placid, N.Y., the Olympic Village of four years ago has been turned into a prison, a conversion that required little change in atmosphere. The athletes' quarters in Sarajevo have the mood of a small town, complete with landscaped square, where the flats are small but pleasant. The knotty-pine floors of various communal rumpus rooms (chess, billiards, video games, television, dancing) give the area a fragrance to compete with the common smell of burning brown coal permeating the countryside. At the sight of one game in particular, Americans are inclined to smile: a hockey machine worked by levers, with...
...Russell Menas also knows the classic land-rape as practiced-by the American corporation, and knows the ongoing 100-year epic of brutal wars and ignored promises. He also knows that the miners will use huge amounts of water--possibly the whole of Pine Ridge's aquifer--in the process of extracting the uranium and zeolite, and he knows what strip-mined land looks like, what the acres and acres of barren, torn up, lifeless land could look like. His is the classic Indian dilemma--between development or poverty, neither palatable options--and Reagan has done nothing...