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Different Bonanza. Conservationists are generally happy with the bill. One provision allows Interior Secretary Rogers Morton to select 80 million acres of some of the loveliest land in the world for national parks, forests and wildlife refuges. For the state, the bill spells out a bonanza of a different kind. Alaska has already set aside for state development 26 million acres, including some on the North Slope. The bill now frees state officials to choose another 77 million acres, and they are sure to favor areas that are rich in natural resources...
Financial Plight. In response to the plea, Commons established a select committee, headed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber, to examine the royal family's financial plight. Its report provided Britons with a rare glimpse of budgetary problems at Buckingham Palace. Since 1952, the Queen's food costs have risen from $72,175 a year to $110,000, upkeep of the royal carriage horses from $11,103 to $28,770, and newspapers from $663 to an imposing...
...then came up with another plan--designed, in the words of its chairman, "to produce students" for the Committee. Each House Committee was instructed to select at random a panel of eleven students. The four representatives were to be selected at random from these panels...
...original proposal--initiated by the West Coast founders--was for a fairly centralized National Interim Committee (NIC) that would aid in organizing new chapters and publicize NAM by publishing a national newspaper. In addition, the founders proposed that the conference select three program priorities which all chapters would work on in addition to local projects...
...conference had two basic objectives: to coordinate the emerging local efforts with some form of national structure, and to select 'program priorities'--issues of national importance which chapters would work on in addition to engaging in local work. The overriding question at the conference was how the national structure would function and how the inherent tension between local needs and national priorities could be resolved...