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Courtlandt Gross, chairman, Lock heed Aircraft Corp...
...military policeman, who told him that Jackson had found Lopez snooping around an ammunition storage area, arrested the Cuban, and now wanted help. Szili joined Jackson, and the two took Lopez to a long-unused rear gate to kick him off the base. But they found the lock rusted tight, and Szili went away to get a sledge hammer...
...bill is now under scrutiny again by the Interior Committee which finally sent to the floor last year an amended version that was more like a poaching permit than a wilderness preservation act. Colorado Democrat Wayne Aspinall, committee chairman and leader of the opposition insists that the bill would "lock up" valuable commercial tracts and jeopardize Congressional authority over Federal lands. The first charge is both pernicious and absurd; the other is merely absurd...
...lock up" of commercially valuable public lands would hurt the West badly, but this frightening phrase does not describe fairly the provisions of the bill. With a few minor exceptions, the approximately thirty million acres of the proposed National Wilderness Preservation System have already been severely restricted or withdrawn completely from commercial use during the past 30 years. If the Wilderness Bill has any economic effect, is will be to increase business opportunities by reopening a few of these areas, following the extensive resource surveys which the bill requires. Until Federal protection was granted, beginning in 1931, the virgin lands...
Muggers attack in broad daylight. Churches lock their doors because, as one clergyman explains, "Too many bums come in, wander around and take what they like." Last week a purse snatcher was shot to death by a rookie patrolman; a 40-year-old man was beaten to death in his home with a leg wrenched by a couple of intruders from his end table; a bank was robbed and police pursued the bandits through the streets while passers-by scattered to escape the gunfire. All this is in Washington. D.C., the nation's capital and a city tortured...