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...unusually stubborn men from Texas -- one rich, the other never quite sure of having gas money or whether his truck's head gasket will last till the next interstate exit -- are locked in a battle over the last of California's privately owned ancient redwoods. Doug Thron, 24, a nature photographer, became an environmentalist after he saw the wild land in Richardson, Texas, he had hiked as a boy paved with malls and condos. Charles Hurwitz, 54, raided and leveraged his way to an '80s-style fortune, acquiring a random bag of companies, including Kaiser Aluminum and the Pacific Lumber...
Take your pick, dreamer or dealmaker. Here is Thron, a sturdy, straightforward fellow who looks like one of those happy, hey-no-prob guys in the beer commercials. But he's an activist who gave up his senior year at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, to rumble around the country in a beat-up truck, presenting some 80 slide shows of his logging photos to environmental groups. It's all in support of a bill now in Congress, the Headwaters Forest Act, that would preserve most of the remaining old-growth redwood groves, which contain trees that have survived...
...compensate for the lack of an ending, an extraneous chorale-prelude, "Vor deinen Thron," was appended when The Art of Fugue was published after Bach's death. But Miss Boron states that it is "a significantly integral part of The Art of Fugue," although the chorale is in the key of G and all the other pieces...
Leverett--If, Seager; rf, Craig; c, MacVicar; lg, Thron; rg, Opel. Dunster--If, Okimura; rf, Baker; c, Brunsman; lg, Fleming; rg, Roscuberg...
...Only in the last two lines, the bloody-red standard had to be replaced by the swastika standard, and the proposed reversal of the "Jewish throne" was substituted for the program of protecting the Soviet Union: "Die Hakenkreuzfahne zum Himmel empor; wir stürzen den jüdischen Thron." The choice of Higher and Higher therefore was rather appropriate for the occasion, as hosts as well as guests could silently accompany the band with their own respective versions...