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New Ethic. Another area where conservation is worth special effort is the private car, which now consumes 14% of all U.S. energy and 31 % of its petroleum.
But will the public respond? Democratic Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia had his doubts. On a recent road trip, he said, he found that no fewer than 63% of all drivers were exceeding the still-in-effect 55 m.p.h. national speed limit. Added Senator Henry M. Jackson, Democrat of...
Died. Walter Clay Lowdermilk, 85, land and water conservationist; in Berkeley, Calif. As a forestry professor in Nanking, China, in the 1920s, Lowdermilk concluded that the vast wastelands of northern China were a product of careless exploitation of agricultural resources. In a vigorous lifelong crusade to combat what he termed...
Once he settled down to it, The Barking Deer took two years to write, and for much of that time going for broke was literally where Rubin seemed headed. He wrote to a dozen publishers, but he had no reputation, no work to show and no agent. Most houses "would...
Rubin grew up in New York City. In 1961 he graduated from Cornell with a major in wildlife conservation. He enlisted in the Green Berets "because there was a guerrilla war going on in Southeast Asia, and hi those innocent times I wanted to be part of it." He went...