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...states, such damage is not very extensive. Many Alaskan fires burn so slowly that even spiders can outrun them; very little wildlife is destroyed. With permafrost so close to the surface, it often takes trees 70 years to reach a diameter of four inches. They are "useful" only for pulp, but the nearest roads for a hypothetical pulp mill are often hundreds of miles from any particular forest. The fires' contribution to air pollution is only temporary, and the grass and moss burn so in- completely that humans' fire trenches may cause as much erosion as the fires...
...appeared in 43 languages. Last week, with the publication in French of ll y a encore des noisetiers (There Are Still Hazel Bushes), Simenon's output under his own name reached a round 200 novels. He has also written 300 other works of fiction using 19 noms de pulp...
...those influenced by the mad engineer at his game board, a benign pink for the writer-hero. The trouble is that she seems to take the hero's fantasy as seriously as he does. As in her other films (Cleo from 5 to 7, Le Bonheur), she mistakes pulp for pith and winds up only with pretension...
Every Injustice. Sinclair came from a shabby-genteel Maryland family, absorbing from that background both a breadth of interests and a sympathy for other havenots. He helped support himself in college by peddling jokes to newspapers for $1 each. He ground out several pulp novels before The Jungle, and he read even faster than he wrote: in one two-week Christmas holiday, he got through all of Shakespeare's plays and Milton's poetry...
...continue their decline and possibly level off by 1970 at about $150 a ton. Meanwhile, Tanzania hopes to develop new uses for its threatened crop. To that end, a consortium of Canadian and European banks has invested some $28 million in a mill to turn sisal into paper pulp. In neighboring Kenya, the world's fourth largest sisal producer, experiments aimed at producing fodder and fertilizer from sisal fibers are under way. Other leading sisal producers, including Brazil and Haiti, have agreed to pool their resources to promote their produce against the steady inroads of the synthetics...