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Muir's windows overlook the sea. He was born near the soil in Hunter, N.D. (pop. 417), and studied in New York at the Art Students League in 1923-24, but now he is enthralled by the littoral life that he has led on the Maine sea-coast since 1939. For his art derives from the botany of the place-the abstract fluidity with which nature cloaks its creatures. In carving through the gnarls and knots of wood, Muir tempts nature to remake itself in another natural image born of a natural...
...risen as much as 1,000% in the last decade. A growing population, the migration from cities to suburbia, increased prosperity and widespread speculation have all pushed up land prices and made old Henry Ford's dictum come true in a way that he never anticipated: "The soil is the source of wealth-not the banks." The worth of all the land in the U.S. is half a trillion dollars-nearly twice the assets of all commercial banks...
...canals and before long brought the once-desolate Mexicali region to life. But in 1961 the water became too salty to drink, and cotton died in the fields. Under the new Wellton-Mohawk reclamation project, U.S. farmers were using irrigation water to leach out excess salt from their desert soil-and were flushing the residue back into the Colorado, whose salt content rose alarmingly from 800 parts per million to more than...
...create a vast new granary, erosion now threatens to turn millions of acres into a dust bowl; most of the new croplands last year failed even to return their seed grain. His hasty campaign to plow under fallow grasslands has impaired huge areas of once-fertile soil since 1958. Khrushchev's evangelical efforts in 1961 to promote mass sowing of corn did more harm than good, as he himself admitted at the meeting...
...stolen, U.S.-made fragmentation bombs buried in the soil, the sabotage was the gravest anti-American terrorist episode in South Viet Nam's war against the Communist Viet Cong -and an unsettling commentary on the Saigon military regime's security apparatus, since the U.S. stadium is next door to Vietnamese Joint General Staff headquarters. (The government belatedly arrested three Vietnamese living near by as suspects.) The incident was also the latest in a fresh wave of terror ism directed at Americans. Two Saigon bars popular with G.I.s have recently been bombed, killing one U.S. serviceman and six Vietnamese...