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...Harvard biologists have found a genus of marine animals which has no bacteria in its digestive tract...
...together $25 at the age of nine to buy a sunken boat and now operates one of the world's largest shipping fleets, made a rare public appearance last week in Richmond, Va. The occasion was the transfer to the state of Virginia of Leesylvania, a 485-acre tract once in the hands of the Robert E. Lee family and later purchased by the Ludwig-controlled American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. Said Ludwig at the ceremony: "I think the people of Virginia are entitled to one of the nicest possible parks in the United States. It is close...
...heartland. The ingredients of A Family Trust are the stuff of saga. Amos, patriarch of the Rising clan, ascends with his newspaper, the Intelligencer, to the position of flame keeper for his insular Midwest town. His son tries to hold a fort that expands into shopping centers and tract houses. The grandchildren mislay the faith while inheriting the wealth that comes as an ironic dividend of cheapening values...
...hard-fought victory last week when the U.S. Supreme Court, by refusing to hear an appeal of a lower-court decision, signaled a go-ahead to exploit acreage near the Baltimore Canyon, which lies 50 to 90 miles off Atlantic City, N.J. The most optimistic geologists estimate that this tract contains up to 1.4 billion bbl. of oil and 9 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. That would be equal to all the oil and gas now drilled in the U.S. in six months...
Whether they live in a city housing project, a tract development or deep in the piney woods, these Americans are, for the most part, culturally disfranchised. They were raised on the old American popular culture, on the myth of the individual who is the master of his own fate, truckles to no man or institution, and whose possibilities are as limitless as a Great Plains horizon. Now, however, employers, unions, governments regulate their lives. Mortgage obligations and even rising Social Security deductions hem them in. The open road, down which escape always seems possible, has become a featureless eight-lane...