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...California's Sierra Nevada, I left the path and bushwhacked across the high country for a day. It was a foolish idea. I was inexperienced, unsure of where I was heading, unprepared for bad weather. Climbing over huge boulders that ancient glaciers had dropped like pebbles along the timber line, I became terrified. What if I broke a leg or got lost? Miles of wilderness surrounded me. When I finally found a trail, I discovered with it a fantastic sense of achievement. One to one with the high country, I had held...
...PlRGs, says Nader, "operate independently-our only connection with them is inspirational" -but they have all the gutsiness of their mentor. The New Jersey PIRG led a successful fight against a $650 million transportation bond issue, and the Minnesota group is suing the U.S. Forest Service to halt timber cutting in a canoeing area along the Canadian border...
...country's first securities market. Munroe, who was once a broker in Beverly Hills, is convinced that overseas investment in Viet Nam is about to take off. "By 1975, there should be a rush to invest," he says, "in everything from rice, fruit and fish to rubber, timber, molybdenum and oil. There are tremendous long-range business opportunities. It's like frontier California; there's a great potential for growth...
...grounds that it had been incurred through corruption) and by declaring an indefinite moratorium on much of the remaining debt. A few months later, Acheampong proclaimed Ghanaian control over "the commanding heights of the economy" and nationalized 55% of the country's foreign-owned gold, diamond and timber operations...
...subjects, including his half-finished, long-promised 800-page novel, Answered Prayers. It is, says Capote, about real people after World War II. One of them is a 19-year-old college girl who has an affair with her roommate's father. And the father is presidential timber. At least he thinks he is. Before four consecutive nominating conventions, he confidently expects to be the Republican candidate. Who is the character modeled after? Capote coyly refuses to say. "It's not somebody that anybody would automatically guess. Even playing Twenty Questions...