Word: gems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer is Man, although you might think it is the Gem of Egypt [May 15]. In man's great haste to realize greater productivity, we shamelessly gouge 80-ft.-deep chunks of valuable land from the earth. Are the few dollars saved by this method of coal mining actually worth the wanton destruction of our environment? I don't think...
...encountered the Gem of Egypt on a recent trip along Interstate 70 in Ohio. It reminded me of old horror movies in which huge tarantulas and other assorted monsters crawl across the countryside terrorizing the citizenry...
...Kilimanjaro. Robert E. Lee Hardwick, a talk jockey on KVI in Seattle, has a different audience, the white middle class, and a different approach. He has taken a group up the slopes of Kilimanjaro and guided an expedition of gem hunters to the wilds of Idaho and Montana. Along the way, he has started a mock fan club of 15,000 for Seattle Pilots Shortstop Ray Oyler, who had the next to the lowest batting average in the American League one season, and he has led angry taxpayers to Olympia, the state capital, to press for tax reform...
...Hanna Co. persuaded federal and state officials to agree that its equipment could cross the highway occasionally. But two of Barnesville's more redoubtable matrons, Mrs. Norma Schuster and Mrs. Aida Rissi, are ready to argue in court that this agreement never envisaged equipment as mighty as the Gem, which requires that the highway be closed for 24 hours and covered with a 12-ft. protective blanket of earth while the Gem creeps across it at ½ m.p.h...
...litigation fails, the two women will try to get a change in zoning rules that would set up a five-mile green belt to protect Barnesville from the machine. Meantime, the Gem crawls ever nearer the road. It is already so close that motorists sometimes stop to marvel as the Gem's giant bucket dips and crunches into Ohio's good earth...