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...longer just for entertainment that men watch eight hours of football a day," says Psychoanalyst Morton Golden. The other motivation? Sex. Men use the games, says Golden, "as a fantasy to relive the youthful sexual aggressiveness that may have ebbed with age and boredom." Psychoanalysts, of course, see sex or aggression in almost any human activity, and laymen may well be skeptical of the diagnosis. But Golden insists in all seriousness that football has become a male substitute for sex, similar to the role of the soap opera for women...
Finally, I should like to point out that the record of female deities and the people who worship them is no better than that of male deities and their worshippers. Morton W. Bloomfield Professor of English
After an acerbic debate with Kennedy in December, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton promised that no drilling would be allowed for at least two more years. Under law, Interior must make a study of the environmental consequences of the drilling. Invoking that law in another case, the Sierra Club and other conservation groups two weeks ago went to federal court in Washington, D.C., and stalled the leasing of drilling rights for 366,000 acres off the Louisiana coast. In what could be a move to placate environmentalists and meet consumer demand for more oil, especially in New England, President Nixon last...
Different Bonanza. Conservationists are generally happy with the bill. One provision allows Interior Secretary Rogers Morton to select 80 million acres of some of the loveliest land in the world for national parks, forests and wildlife refuges. For the state, the bill spells out a bonanza of a different kind. Alaska has already set aside for state development 26 million acres, including some on the North Slope. The bill now frees state officials to choose another 77 million acres, and they are sure to favor areas that are rich in natural resources...
...would ask Congress to authorize acquisition of 547,000 of Big Cypress' acres. The reason, he said, is to save them "from private development." Nixon thus outflanked Democratic Senators who already had mapped plans to protect the swamp. The cost of federal acquisition, said Interior Secretary Rogers Morton, will be "considerably in excess of $100 million," spread over the next decade...