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...council announced its plans at a news conference in Washington on Monday. Its focus will be on 100 Congressmen who are undecided about or opposed to setting a definite date for withdrawal. Reischauer said. The council hopes to swamp these Congressmen with letters from their constituents pledging to support more militant peace candidates in the 1972 elections...
...distinctive yap-yap-yap call and drumming of the large (19 in.) ivory-billed woodpecker have not been heard in significant numbers in the U.S. since the late 1930s, when all but a few of the birds were wiped out by loggers who cut down rotten, grub-filled swamp timber on which the woodpeckers fed. Now an official of the National Audubon Society named Robert Manns claims that he has heard one woodpecker's cries in the desolate Santee Swamp, near Columbia, S.C. The South Carolina Public Service Authority has heard Manns. The authority, which controls Santee Swamp timbering...
...face was darkened by a terrible birthmark. This was told me by a retired professor who attended Harvard at that time, a misplaced Yankee scholar who because of health exiled himself to my semi-tropical hometown in a house located halfway down the road which leads to the swamp where the lads and lasses went on Saturday nights to park, celebrate, or race our cars at ungodly speeds through the licking fingers of the Spaish moss. This professor told me that the dark side of Eliot's face was terrible to behold but that he was a splendid...
...planned. In each of these, water pumped up to huge tanks on mountain tops and released to generate electricity when needed. These will be built on Wantastiquet Mountain in Brattleboro, Vermont; on Northfield Mountain in Massachusetts; near Bellows Falls in Walpole, New Hampshire; and near Bear Creek Swamp above Rowe, Massachusetts. The ecological consequences of the 10 rise in river temperature, the 205 dams and the pump storage stations have hardly been investigated...
...feet. At last it was too much for patience; Bill madly pulled the throttle for a final spurt, when, quite unfortunately,- sp-t-t-t-r,- the boiler ripped, all the water trickled helplessly out, and the driving-wheels rolled down either bank. We were half-way to Pelican Swamp after six hours' travelling. I instantly determined to leave the old lady, bab and baggage, to the tender mercies of the railway officials, and I seized my carpetbag and walked the rest of the way in fifteen minutes...