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...Oregon pine, hauling up a chain saw and hand ax. It took a film, of course, a version of Ken Kesey's novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, to induce the actor-acrophobe to do lumberjack stunts. He reported two weeks early in order to work on his timber technique with a real north-woods logger. "It takes a lot of acting," Newman admitted, "to cover up the fear...
...major rationale for more logging in national forests is that the bulk of the Government's high-yield timber areas are located in sections of Alaska, California, the Northwest and parts of the South "not uniquely valuable for other uses." The commission would also amend the General Mining Law of 1872 galled "scandalous" by some conservationists), which allows prospectors to mine whatever minerals they find on public lands, but the change would merely shift claim filing from local to federal officials. No tough conservation controls are contemplated...
...overwhelmingly commercial tone of the report should come as no surprise. Most of the commission's members are Congressmen from Western states that depend heavily on mining, grazing and timbering. In spite of this, the report does have the positive aspect of focusing public attention on the nation's land needs. The issue is crucial in a day when 80% of Americans live on 10% of the land-much of it urban, congested and polluted. An increasingly environment-conscious Congress may act only on those parts of it that reflect the current congressional mood. Last week President Nixon...
...even disposable plastic mess gear, life becomes a routine of sitting out one artillery barrage after another. Dust blows off the dunes in gagging flurries and the heat is stifling, but the bunkers are relatively safe. The tanklike forts are topped with such a sturdy mixture of sand, concrete, timber and steel rails ripped up from the trans-Sinai line that even accurate salvos send little more than tremors below. The Suez defenders, who call themselves "moles," pass the hours in the cramped forts cleaning their weapons and playing backgammon...
SUPPLIES of concrete and timber suddenly began vanishing all over Egypt. Some roads were closed to civilian traffic, as trucks bearing shrouded hardware rumbled to guarded sites in nighttime runs. Huge transport planes thundered ceaselessly into Cairo's airport, disgorging men and equipment. These mysterious comings and goings a few months ago signaled a major expansion of the Soviet Union's presence in Egypt. Some diplomats compare it to the beginnings of the U.S. buildup in South Viet Nam in the mid-1960s...