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McKay believes in conservation, not decomposition. He has pushed the surveys needed for land development. In Nevada, which is 85% federally owned. says McKay, "the survey was going so slowly it wouldn't have been finished for a thousand years. I've fixed it so the job will be done this century anyway." He has pushed timber cutting to provide a permanent yield (as practiced by big Western operators, like Crown Zellerbach and Weyerhaeuser, whose future lies in future forest growth...
Only a few thousand voters bothered to cast ballots in the Tennessee Republican primary. As their senatorial nominee they picked Ray H. Jenkins, counsel in the Army-McCarthy investigation. Jenkins insisted that he was not a candidate, but he neglected to have his name removed from the ballot. This week, with Jenkins still insisting, the Republican state committee prepared to name a replacement...
...ranch, although Oppenheimer cabled last week that he did not know them well. By her own account, "something started to stir" in Joan Hinton when the first A-bombs were dropped. "Hiroshima," she scribbled in a frenzied letter, "150,000 lives. One, two, three, four . . . one hundred and fifty thousand . . . Were we to blame?" Most atomic scientists, far closer to the bomb than Joan Hinton, have struggled with this sense of guilt. Joan Hinton's answer was to abandon her profession and her country...
...with the British. But in time he became head of West Germany's O.F.P.O.C. (Office for the Protection of the Constitution), the security agency charged with detecting espionage, subversion and treason. He was the J. Edgar Hoover of West Germany's FBI. a legendary "man of a thousand secrets." and with him to the east he carried the thousand secrets about the agents, techniques and plans of the West's intelligence...
Indo-China has a thousand-odd churches, some of them converted Buddhist temples (see cut). It is divided into 18 vicariates with about 1,400 native priests and 18 bishops (eight of them Indo-Chinese). Among them are Msgr. Pham Ngoc Chi, Bishop of Bui Chu and Msgr. Thaddeus Le Huu Tu, Bishop of Phat Diem. Msgr. Tu is the only Roman Catholic bishop in the world (besides the Pope, with his 100-odd Swiss Guards) to maintain his own private army-two regular battalions of 1,700 men, plus a militia of 5,800. (The two bishops and thousands...