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Until recently, conservationists generally lacked standing in the courts. Judges leaned toward litigants whose tangible property rights were threatened. But in 1965, an appellate court ordered the Federal Power Commission -for environmental reasons-to reconsider its approval of a power plant at Storm King Mountain on New York's Hudson River. The case stressed that federal regulatory agencies had a duty to seek out public interest in cases before them. It was a major step in opening the courts to conservationists...
...actor for whom Paint Your Wagon was not just a film but "a dream of a time when I should have lived." As he moved along the chitchat-and-canape circuit last week in his polka-dot shirt, Levi's and sneakers, he seemed more a displaced mountain man than movie star, a character created not by Logan but by Zane Grey. When he launched into one of his stories, punctuated with bammos! and whistles, arm waving and mimicry, he might well have been regaling a bunch of the boys around a campfire...
Music to Generals' Ears ATHENS, Greece-The composer of the music for the motion picture "Zorba the Greek" has been imprisoned, according to reports in Athens. Miki Theodorakis, a leftist opposed to the Greek generals, was taken from the mountain village where he had been living in exile with his family, the reports said...
...doubts. "People have a terrible time with the names of things," he says. "The artist sees the world abstractly-form and color. Through his work, he hopes to get people to see the world as he does." From his cavernous studio in New Haven, he sees Snake Mountain on one side, a railroad freight yard on the other. As an artist he looks on both with an equal...
...Shenandoah Valley and the mountains surrounding it are tied primarily to Appalachia. The violent battle for the leadership of the United Mine Workers (UMW) last summer, the black lung disease, and all the problems of Appalachian poverty present a different set of problems for a political candidate entering the area. For years the mountain people had appeared satisfied to the politicians in Richmond, but food stamps and a sellout union are no longer acceptable to them a decade after John F. Kennedy focused attention on the area's problems in his West Virginia primary...