Word: timber
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Sprinter Todd Hooks symbolized many of the frustrations facing the Crimson. The tri-captain rushed his recovery from a stifling leg injury to bolster a depleted sprint and hurdle corps. The timber-topper performed brilliantly at times, as did hurdler Paul Organ, but the pair could not pull the team through alone...
...more limited by the size of his raw material than any other sculptor. A log is a log; it cannot be melted down or extended. One can order marble to size, but no tree in China or Japan could possibly give a sculptor a large enough balk of timber to carve something as big as Michelangelo's David. Even if there was such a tree, there would be insuperable problems of technique. Wood is grainy. It favors continuous, compressed shapes with a strong axis along the grain. Anything that sticks sideways from the block-an arm, say-is weak...
Contender for Interior Secretary . . . Age 45 . . . Maverick who refused help of Idaho's Democratic machine when he first ran for Governor in 1966 . . . Lost then, but was elected in his second try in 1970 . . . Strongly advocated-and got passed-environmental legislation despite opposition of state's influential timber and mining industries . . . Knows Carter from Governors' conferences in early 1970s . . . Campaigned strongly for him . . . Son of a lumbermill operator, was elected to state senate at 29, served four terms . . . Married, with three daughters . . . Lutheran . . . An energetic sort, has been TV pitchman for Idaho potatoes, played celebrity golf (best...
Jungle Crushers. Starting a timber business has involved Ludwig in a coals-to-Newcastle operation: cutting down jungle in order to plant new trees. The native forest contains far too many species of trees?more than 300 different kinds on any given acre?for profitable lumbering. At a cost of $250,000 each, Ludwig imported giant Caterpillar "jungle crushers," overgrown bulldozers designed to pull down the natural jungle growth. But these machines proved useless because they damaged the unexpectedly delicate Amazon topsoil. Today one of the jungle crushers stands abandoned and rusting on the outskirts of Monte Dourado...
...Songwriter John Prine, whose tune Paradise tells of the "tortured timber and scarred land" that resulted from strip mining near his family home in Muhlenberg County...