Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chopper with a Northeast Command colonel for a lightning supply and inspection visit to a forward company command post in a remote foothills barrio in Isabela province. As the scenery below us quickly changed from the lush lowland rice fields to the forbidding forests and gullies of the Sierra Madre highlands, the pilot climbed to 2,000 feet, respectfully out of range of Thompson submachine guns and AK-47s. Suddenly, when he spotted the tiny H-shaped landing pad, he put the chopper into a tight sinking spiral and landed in the barrio. The supplies were unloaded and the colonel...
...Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference, most active opponent to the project, and the Sierra Club have written the Army Corps of Engineers informing them that all construction permits for the project must be reissued, meeting the guidelines of the National Environmental Policy...
BRATTLE THEATER. Treasure of Sierra Madre, 5:30, 9:25. High Sierra, 7:45 (Wknd...
Treasure of the Sierra Madre. John Huston's finest, most vivid film portrays three bums propsecting for gold in Mexico. Based on a novel by a mysterious Mexican author, B. Traven, the story is an adventure weaved so tightly it becomes allegory. But such a description hides the style of the film. Its portraiture, not just of characters but of Tampico and the bum's life, is as skillful as could be, and the mood ranges from harsh humiliation of Bogart by Alfonso Bedoya, the bandit chief, to dreamy paradise that Walter Huston finds...
...down the coast: $509.1 billion worth of land. More realistic opponents are trying to control the membership of the coastal commissions themselves. But so are conservationists. Meantime, developers are rushing to get their future projects approved by local authorities before the new rules take effect. In Sacramento, Sierra Club Lobbyist John Zierold, watching the number of building applications soar to record levels, says, "We just have to grit our teeth and bear...