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...such commercial exploitation as the denuding of the Amazon rain forest -has meant the annual loss of enough trees to forest half the state of California. One side effect: as the trees are slashed away, the ground loses its ability to retain water, the land becomes increasingly arid and precious topsoil is lost. Shortages of drinking water will become chronic in many parts of the world...
...reason, of course, is the price of gasoline. Years of Government exhortations to conserve precious gasoline by switching to public transit, doubling up in car pools and even simply not driving did little to reduce fuel consumption. But expensive gas is having a stunning impact. The average national price for unleaded gasoline this summer is $1.26 per gal, a 39? increase over last year. Total gas consumption fell 7% in the first 6½ months of this year, while imports of foreign oil declined a strong 13.6%. Oil-company reserves two weeks ago stood at an alltime high...
...only 2 gal. of it a year per capita, vs. 29 gal. for the French. Europeans are also drawn by the large tracts of California's excellent uncultivated land. In the 86,000-acre Champagne district of northeastern France, Piper, for example, has only seven acres of the precious chalky soil. Now Piper has an investment in 1,200 acres of land in the Napa Valley...
...FIRST DOG DAYS of this sultry new decade, two films of precious little artistic merit and perhaps less social value have burst on the scene to entice us into the cool, dark air of the neighborhood cinema. These are movies about jes' plain folk who might live around the corner or across the state, silly stories of ordinary people who want to be rich so that they can be happy, happy in the American...
There is something-and these days, when most movies resemble Bel Air rummage sales, it seems a precious thing-called directorial integrity. It does not mean that the man behind the camera tithes his salary for Cambodian refugees; it means he knows how to make movies: how to shoot and edit pieces of film so they cohere, blend to create laughter or suspense, speak eloquently in the special language of the cinema. Steven Spielberg, Alan J. Pakula, Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter know the language. So does Australian Director George Miller, whose first feature contains sequences of violent, pure cinema poetry...