Word: scenically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arranged this draconian method of enforcing Poland's building code was Zakopane's staunchly orthodox Mayor Stanislaw Bafia; in his view, the punishment fitted the crime. The capital of a scenic region billed in the brochures as "the Switzerland of Poland," Zakopane had in recent years become known among smart Poles as a good place not only to take a vacation but also to turn an easy zloty or two in illegal housing, building and real estate. As the dimensions of Zakopane's non-Communist economy were revealed in the wake of the November raid, one Warsaw...
...Apple Pie. My idea of a good time this last week has been walking the streets with an Edgar Winter--They Only Come Out At Night lapel button, with an eye towards passerby response. It's been minimal. Anyway, celebrate the collapse of another semester with Edgar Winter and scenic Boston's equally scenic James Montgomery, I was one of those people who passionately hated, "Sylvia's Mother", because I was taking it much too seriously. Then I heard Dr. Hook, on "VD Blues," do a tune called "Don't Give a Dose to the One You Love Most," which...
...Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference initiated legal action to prevent construction of the generating station in 1963, and in 1965 they successfully appealed the Federal Power Commission's decision to license the project...
...General J. Shane Creamer, who calls it a "cash register in the sky," is fighting Ottenstein through the courts. Although Gettysburg has no zoning laws, Creamer bases his case on a recent state constitutional amendment intended to assure the citizenry of its right to "the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic virtues of the environment." He has called on such notables as Architect Louis Kahn and Historian Bruce Catton to testify on the state's behalf. County Court Judge John A. MacPhail recently turned Creamer down, however, ruling that "historical Gettysburg has already been raped," and also...
...Congress responded to the reverberation of tramping feet by designating the Pacific and Appalachian trails as the first of 16 possible National Scenic Trails (see map). As yet, these are the only ones that are marked and maintained for public use, but when the system is complete it will be possible to follow the route of Lewis and Clark across the Rockies or hike for 825 miles past Civil War and Revolutionary battle sites near the Potomac. Hardy footsloggers may also be able to trudge the length of the Chisholm Trail-one of the three main cattle routes...