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...acted in part from patriotism, as he is doing in his well-known campaign to free American war prisoners in Viet Nam. "It was something I could do and something I ought to do," he told TIME'S Houston Bureau Chief Leo Janos. "There was a situation ripe for investor panic...
...Gale McGee said that instead of regenerating naturally after clearcutting, as the Forest Service claims, the forests often have to be replanted with seedlings, a difficult and hazardous task, especially on steep slopes. McGee also said that timber companies favor clear-cutting over selective cutting (the removal of only ripe or harmful trees) because they can use giant machines that flatten thousands of trees a day, a money-saving if destructive practice...
Jaunty Note. Not surprisingly for a composer who lived to such a ripe age, Stravinsky wrote his own requiem. This week his body was to be flown to Venice for burial in the Russian corner of the cemetery of San Michele. His Requiem Canticles (1966) were to be sung at a final service in the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo. All this is in accordance with the composer's own devout wishes. Still, even Stravinsky himself might have liked the additional jaunty note of the epitaph he tossed off nine years ago, before leaving for an African conducting...
...capacity during rush hours. Several of the city's wards are sinking below sea level at an alarming rate because industrial plants have drawn off so much water from underground streams. As if all this were not enough, geologists have warned that Tokyo is just about ripe for another major earthquake-and that at least 3,000,000 would die if it were anywhere near as intense as the 1923 temblor that killed...
...kind of terrible cruelty on his actresses that hasn't been seen since The Damned, a film to which The Conformist bears several other unhappy resemblances. Women in this film are either stooges (like Marcello's wife) or succubi (like the professor's), corrupted or ripe for corruption. They only serve to accentuate the film's air of perfumed decadence...