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...film picks up where Hawaii left off; Whip Hoxworth (this time played by Heston) returns home to find that his dead grandfather has willed him 85,000 measly acres of Hawaiian soil. Hoxworth promptly heads for French Guiana to steal some pineapples to plant. A lovely Chinese girl (Tina Chen) helps the fruit to flourish, and Hoxworth soon has most of the island on the Dole...
...Loren Fisher, tells of a "God of nature" as well as the more frequently emphasized "God of history." This God abhors pagan nature worship, but he decrees that all creation is good and holds his servant, man, accountable for what happens to it. Scripture even urges the practice of soil conservation (Leviticus 25: 2-5), kindness to animals (Exodus 23: 12) and preservation of trees (Deuteronomy...
Died. Clifford R. Hope, 76, longtime (1927-56) Republican Congressman from Kansas; following a series of strokes; in Garden City, Kans. As an articulate champion of the farmer, Hope was largely responsible for the passage of the Soil Erosion Act (1935), the Hope-Aiken price-support law (1948) and the Farm Credit...
...Hudson River water in the S-billion gallon reservoir is not only polluted but brackish, and there is a chance that seepage from the reservoir would spread salts through the soil in other areas of the forest. According to the conservationists' scenario, the vegetation in the area would die or be replaced by other salt-tolerant species...
...slow and unguent Aquarium seemed like treading through Louisiana in the earliest morning, interrupting the scudding smokes of the rousing heat and resolute dry plants, with a newspaper tucked implacably, disharmoniously under arm. There should be a sign: "Leave your newspapers at the door. Don't soil the flowers with their bleeding ink." So I stepped out of the Aquarium onto the gentle and savage bottom of another ocean, shifting with colorful creatures, some moody, some violent. I was happy in the reflection that we had the sunlight to illumine the cathedral corals as well as the virulent, striving tangles...