Word: preservationism
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Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference, the project's staunchest opponent, learned last week that its request for a rehearing of its recently denied petition had been turned down by the Federal Power Commission. Appeals court action on that matter may begin soon.
One powerful figure who agrees with Mrs. Simon (he reviewed her book in the New York Times) is Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who has drafted a controversial bill that would turn the Vineyard, plus neighboring Nantucket and the outlying Elizabeth Islands, into the Nantucket Sound Islands Trust. Kennedy's...
There is a definite place for new buildings in his philosophy too. "Coexistence is the key," Weese says. "The old with the new." Then he adds a more personal reason for his efforts at preservation: "It might sound a bit chauvinistic-but maybe someone will save one of our buildings...
The Eisenhower Administration encouraged Diem to cancel the '56 election, in the belief that a democratic election would bring communists to power throughout Vietnam, and so end democracy there once and for all. It was a curious preview of later Administration reasoning: cancelling elections to protect democracy smacks of destroying...
NOT RESTRICTED by social pressure, the "savage journey" accelerates downward, focussing Duke's attentions on a degraded physical level. Eating, drinking, and fouling like the rest, he somehow manages to retain a shred of self-respect. It alienates him from them, and causes repulsive hallucinations of lizards, moray eels, and...