Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Comstock Lode. New find? No. Old sharpie. Word was out that Mystery Zillionaire Howard Hughes, 62, had just paid $225,000 for a 480-acre claim in the area, and one of Hughes's advisers speculated that perhaps $12 billion in gold remained buried in the nearby Sierra Nevada Mountains. The investment was peanuts compared with the gold mines Hughes has already picked up. In 15 months he has spent $125 million in the state, last month closed deals for Las Vegas' Stardust Hotel ($30.7 million) and Silver Slipper Saloon ($5,400,000) and their gambling casinos, giving...
...placid, easygoing natives simply leased the land to Spanish and Portuguese settlers, then sat back and began taking in income. The settlers, in turn, imported Nigerian laborers, who now make up two-thirds of Fernando Poo's 60,000 population. Other mainlanders from as far away as Sierra Leone moved to the island to set up business. Today, hundreds of the island's people are wealthy, dress formally for dinner and send their children off to Spain for college...
Portugal, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somali Republic, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Republic, United Kingdom, United States, Upper Volta, Uruguay, Venezuela, South Viet Nam, Yugoslavia, Zambia...
...full-time environmentalists in the world, Brower is Executive Director of the 60,000-member Sierra Club. The group began with an interest mostly in mountaineering and California, but grew as it became more and more vocal in battles over remaining hunks of wilderness. Stubbornness and publicity now have given it the de facto leadership of the conservation movement. Full of brilliant pictures by photographers like Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter--plus redolent quotes from Thoreau or Robinson Jeffers--its "Exhibit Format" books and paperbacks are selling quickly. Brower has edited most of them. The Coop can't keep Sierra...
BROWER has put the Sierra Club in its position of leadership because he knows how to advertise and has enlisted the support of professional advertising men. The Exhibit Format books and posters are designed to attract buyers and to leave a message. Sierra Club films are available to groups, and organized trips into the wilderness grow more popular every year. Now he is planning buttons and bumper stickers--on pollution ("Keep Our Air Visible") or population ("How Dense Can People Be?", "Good Breeding Can Be Overdone"), or just for irony: "Save the Pan Am Building." While other groups...