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...motioned for me to go around to the left side of the house. She let me in a rear door and ushered me into the back porch through a swamp of unused Hartke posters, through the kitchen parlor, dining room, and finally into the living room which was the main headquarters for the operation...
...MUSKIE practices putting with Goofy and braces the wind in a swamp buggy. Scoop Jackson Indian-wrestles a brewery worker. Hubert Humphrey bobs and waves from a merry-go-round. George McGovern presses the flesh in a beauty parlor. John Lindsay savors the pure air of the scuba diver. On a loftier plane, the once and future candidate, Richard Nixon, meets the folks in China-and that momentous event, too, has its political significance. The great quadrennial callithump of politics, American style, is under...
...dramatize an Administration plan to purchase 565,000 acres of Florida's Big Cypress Swamp for a federal water reserve, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton and Presidential Daughter Julie Eisenhower went swamp walking-right up to the edge of an alligator hole. No alligators. So Julie slogged around happily in her borrowed hip boots. "The water felt good," she chortled. "My feet were...
...conservationists, Florida's Big Cypress Swamp, 35 miles west of Miami, is a watery treasure of solitude and variety. Covering 968,000 acres of wetland, forest, rivers and islands, it teems with wildlife, including such endangered species as the Florida panther, alligator, snowy egret and bald eagle. Moreover, the swamp is a major watershed that supplies the vast Everglades National Park, immediately to the south, with a constant flow of vital water. To land subdividers, on the other hand, it seems the next logical place in which to expand Miami's suburbs...
Last week President Nixon announced that he would ask Congress to authorize acquisition of 547,000 of Big Cypress' acres. The reason, he said, is to save them "from private development." Nixon thus outflanked Democratic Senators who already had mapped plans to protect the swamp. The cost of federal acquisition, said Interior Secretary Rogers Morton, will be "considerably in excess of $100 million," spread over the next decade...