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...which he accepted the Democratic nomination last July, George McGovern quoted from a Woody Guthrie song: "This land is your land./This land is my land./ From California to the New York island." The words might come back to him now with a bitter ring. The land, "from the redwood forest to the Gulfstream waters," pretty much belonged to Richard Nixon. Hawaii, which had never gone Republican, wound up in the President's column. For the first time in a hundred years, Arkansas went...
Here we are in the all too near future, when pollution is so thick that skywriters engrave their words with hammer and chisel. Population is so dense that the authorities sponsor a killathon, in which patriotic citizens dispatch themselves in diverse ways. The last California redwood has been replaced by a plastic memorial. Prize dogs compete not for ribbons, but for virgin asphalt on which to relieve themselves...
...This is the second step in the environmental movement," Roberts said. "It's not enough to say we have to save the redwood trees. We have to ask, 'How do we do it? Who pays...
...enough to say we have to save the redwood trees. We have to ask, 'How do we do it? Who pays...
Died. Warren K. Billings, 79, radical labor agitator who was unjustly convicted of planting a bomb that killed ten persons during a 1916 parade in San Francisco; in Redwood City, Calif. Billings and co-defendant Tom Mooney were condemned on testimony that was perjured and heavily biased because of antileftist sentiment. The case provoked a worldwide protest that focused on Mooney, the better known of the two. Billings spent 23 years in prison, where he learned watchmaking. Freed in 1939 and pardoned in 1961, he opened a shop only blocks from the scene of the bombing...