Word: conservationism
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In 1940 the six children of John D. Jr. established the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, to which their father willed half his estate. The fund is the one philanthropy that they operate jointly. In 1972 it made nearly 300 grants totaling more than $11 million. Now John D. Jr.'s...
The bill being considered by the House Interior Committee would double the size of Grand Canyon National Park. The amendment added to it last week by a 24-11 vote was sponsored by Arizona's conservation-minded Morris Udall. Thus the measure might be expected to have the support...
To head off such a national calamity, the Wild Life Department came up with a bounty of $30 per Bufo, and the Darwin Conservation Society put up another $7.50. When angry cattle farmers, fearing that the toads would eat the dung beetles that eat disease-spreading flies, demanded that the...
Says U.S. Delegate Leigh Ratiner, "We're really writing a constitution." The Caracas delegates cannot just draw lines on the map the way Pope Alexander VI did when he split world navigation rights between Spain and Portugal in 1493. Rather, they have a three-dimensional task: they must apportion...
Ronald V. Dellums, 38. Running for Congress in 1970, Berkeley City Councilman Dellums won votes for his antiwar stand and picked up another bundle when Spiro Agnew called him a "radical extremist." "If being an advocate of peace, justice and humanity toward all human beings is radical," he responded, "then...