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...million Americans in newspapers, tissues and wrapping for a year. That is not the only potential loss. Maine would be deprived for the 40 years needed for forest regeneration of at least $13.6 million a year in taxes from the forest-products industry. Workers and businesses serving the timber industry could lose another $106 million per year. Beyond that, Maine's $450 million-a-year tourist industry will suffer; no campers or hunters will want to go into a gloomy wasteland of dead trees. In the competition with the budworm, concludes Lester De-Coster, New England regional manager...
...basement of Bridgeman's Restaurant, the drivers and their backers were trading tales and plotting strategy while downing tumblers of bourbon and Grain Belt beer. They also mulled over the tout sheet of Local Handicapper Duane Krause, who goes by the pen name "Timber Savage." Savage and most of the smart money favored George Attla, a lame, one-eyed Athapascan Indian from Fairbanks, Alaska. Others leaned toward Harris Dunlap, a former art teacher from Bakers Mills in New York's Adirondacks...
...Joan that ultimately fascinates Keneally is Saint Joan. To him, her voices are as real as she is. Why not? Keneally's world of 1420 is full of voices - from all sorts of prophets, as trologers, witches. Every oak grove is "enchanted timber." The Golden Bough seems to coexist with the Gospels on these pages, rinding common ground in the ritual of sacrifice. From the first, Keneally's virgin, who never even menstruated, is predestined to shed blood as scapegoat for her unworthy King. "All she wanted to do," he sums up, "was achieve her own victimhood...
...Force Squadron Leader Dr. Phillip Brownlie, one of the first physicians on the scene, said the victims had "abdominal injuries, head injuries, ruptured spleens, broken femurs and lacerated chests. Most of the injuries were caused by flying roofs, iron and timber. Darwin is gone. There's nothing left but rubble." Among the survivors were Steve Albanis, his wife Carol and their son, Damien, 2½, who outlasted the storm by huddling inside a deep freezer with 18-in. walls. Geoff James and his wife Barbara clung to their front fence for four hours; when the wind changed, they climbed...
...most unfortunate error, which could be quite detrimental to wildlife, appearing in American Notes [Dec 9]. Whether your quoted figure of 50,000 wolves inhabiting Alaska is a typographical error or a case of improper research, we feel that the true number and situation of the Alaskan timber wolf (Canis lupus pambasileus) should be stated...