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According to Interior Secretary Stew art L. American Udall, no species - 14 fewer than 78 mammals, native 36 birds, six reptiles and 22 varieties of fish - are on the brink of vanishing from the earth forever. In almost every case, their deadly enemy is man. The Indiana bat, for instance, is in danger because the caves in which it lives have become tourist attractions and because of acts of vicious vandalism (two boys killed 10,000 in Carter Cave, Kentucky, pulling them off the ceiling and trampling them to death). The Florida alligators are on the decline because...
...nice girl like her doing in a place like the theater, anyway? Why isn't she out in the fresh air on an apple-cheeked picket line? As a playwright, Miss Garson is still much closer to Berkeley than Broadway. In trying to whip up a wicked political stew, she has turned out a mere Hasty Pudding...
...nosed Irish-American named Emmett Grogan, 23, The Diggers beg leftovers and handouts from nearby restaurants, butcher shops and groceries, rumble around in a rainbow-painted truck dispensing stew and sympathy. "The whole idea is love," explains Digger Leonard Sussman, 23, who recently quit an insurance job in New Jersey to join the love-Haight mission. "We have a farm in Mendocino given to us by a friend where we'll grow food," he explains, "and other Diggers will go to Chile or Mexico to grow marijuana in the backyard...
...Powell controversy. Arguing that Ford had made a political "blunder" by marshaling G.O.P. members behind last month's resolution to deny the Harlem Democrat his seat, Brooke charged: "Now the Powell matter has become a Republican problem. It was the Democrats' mess, and we should have let them stew...
...Vietnamese festival of Tet combines the qualities of Christmas and the end of Ramadan, the Hindu feast of lights and the pagan rites of spring. To welcome the Lunar New Year, Vietnamese housewives last week prepared mounds of hanh chung - rice cakes covered with a stew of pork fat, pickled onions and rancid fish sauce. Fathers wrapped money in red paper for the children and raised the cay neu, a 30-ft. bamboo pole topped with offerings of betel nuts to propitiate the spirits. Before Tet begins, the good spirits of forest and stream, garden and hearth, head...