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...Israel's situation were suddenly to take a turn for the worse, even become desperate? How deep then is the American commitment to Israel? Might the U.S., by sending Phantoms and missiles and other sophisticated weaponry, once again, so soon after Viet Nam, be starting down another slippery slope...
Canadian Lakes, Mich., sprawls across 5,200 acres of hills and woods an hour northeast of Grand Rapids. It boasts seven existing lakes and three more under construction, so to speak. An unusual feature: Donald J. Bollman, who owns the development lock, stock and ski slope, lives in a $500,00 Disneyesque concrete castle on the northern...
Between bookings he lives with his wife Annie in a $150,000, split-level three-bedroom house on a wooded slope near Aspen. Folks coming to call on Denver sometimes have to track him down on nearby ski trails or golf courses or, at the very least, up on the roof in a glass-enclosed loft where he likes to watch eagles through a telescope. "There is no artifice to John," says Folk Singer Tom Paxton. "John is a Druid, a tree worshiper, an elf, a sprite." Just the man, perhaps, to take the curse off music that makes people...
Anti-Sierra sentiment is strongest along the North Slope, where oil wells remain capped. "People down south worry more about the ice than they do about the people up here," complains Vic Vickery, 35, an assistant drilling superintendent for British Petroleum. "We can't even have a gun here to protect ourselves against bears. We had four grizzlies come in the other day and we had to chase 'em off with a fork lift...
...killed and dragged into the cavern by the tiger: a mastodon, an ancient horse, a long-nosed piglike creature called a peccary and a prehistoric bison. In addition, they discovered four relatively recent human remains-probably Indians of the Woodland Period (1000 B.C.-1500 A.D.). Distinguished by the artificial slope of their foreheads, a cosmetic effect achieved by the binding of their skulls during childhood, the Indians lived in the area 2,000 years ago and apparently used the cavern as a burial site...