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...three years as Governor of Florida, rambunctious Republican Claude Kirk Jr. has made an antic art of what he calls "confrontation politics." Kirk frankly describes himself as a "tree-shakin' son of a bitch," and he has proved it repeatedly in headline-grabbing performances that range from the 1967 Jacksonville rally, at which he faced down Black Nationalist Rap Brown, to his performance last January on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, where he appeared waving a petition against recent desegregation rulings...
Last week Kirk put on his most spectacular tree-shaking performance ever. Within six furious days, the Governor 1) "overturned" a court decision on school busing by unilaterally declaring it "a horrible illegal act," 2) twice dismissed the duly elected school board of sleepy Manatee County on Florida's Gulf Coast, 3) ignored federal court orders to answer contempt charges, 4) ordered his men to resist federal marshals "with force," 5) installed himself as Manatee school superintendent, and 6) made a direct and lofty appeal for justice to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...friend-of-the-court" brief in a North Carolina desegregation case, suggesting that a federal judge had committed "an abuse of discretion" in ordering busing to achieve desegregation in Charlotte and Mecklenberg County. That kind of undercutting of the federal courts could make it open season for would-be tree shakers all over the South...
...Forest Service officials first began to notice a peculiar yellowing of needles on on the the San Bernardino trees in the 1950s. Not until the early 1960s was the cause of the disease traced to smog. "Photosynthesis is inhibited almost immediately," says Paul Miller, a plant pathologist with the Forest Service at Riverside. In controlled experiments, smog concentrations of as little as .15 ppm. caused a 20% inhibition of photosynthesis within 60 days. The reality is grimmer. On hot summer days, the smog level in the San Bernardino forest can reach .5 ppm. The average is .20 to .25 - enough...
...talked for a while and then he turned down the garden hose and laid it in a trough he had made around a lemon tree...