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That small act of concern symbolizes the problem that confronts Governor Dixy Lee Ray, her state of Washington and indeed the entire Pacific Northwest. The unspoiled region is struggling to preserve a natural balance that is threatened by the works of man, striving to encourage progress yet retain the beauty of the forests, the mountains and the seacoast that make the area so mistily appealing and define its very essence...
...whole Northwest, and most especially Washington, is entering a crucial phase, one that will decide whether the region can retain the very elements that distinguish it, in substance and flavor, if not literally in every forest and windswept stretch of coastline. Dixy Lee Ray, herself an increasing source of controversy, is right in the middle of the struggle and delighted to be there. With the subtlety of a Seattle stevedore, she is bulldozing ahead on the key issues. Among them...
...much more crammed inside that Mount Rushmore noggin. Sevareid was among the most articulate, most literate and most judicious of television sages. In a farewell address last week, he summed up some of the lessons he has learned in a half-century as a journalist. Prominent among them: "To retain the courage of one's doubts, as well as one's convictions, in this world of dangerously passionate certainties...
...African National Council's youth wing in Salisbury, Muzorewa said he was willing to enter negotiations. Expressing sympathy for the idea of guarantees for whites, the bishop added that "we are sincere and honest when we say we will look very seriously to those things that will retain their confidence and trust in the future...
...spokesman for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Health and Sciences Subcommittee, said yesterday the new legislation would retain a 5-per-cent mandatory increase in enrollment in the third year class at American medical schools for one year. The change would, however, allow the schools to choose from an unlimited pool of foreign-trained Americans and transfers from two-year American programs...