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...worth of land simply cannot be measured in dollars and cents. "The idea that man can assess the value of a piece of land doesn't take into account what we've learned about ecology in the last 40 years," says Maitland Sharp, conservation director of the Izaak Walton League. To be sure, there is no way to calculate the dollar value of the view from a mountaintop, the solitude of a forest or the airy freedom provided by a piece of open land near a crowded city. There is no way to put a price on an ecosystem that...
...neighbor's yeomanry. "Unfortunately, he forgot to provide water .. . 'We had to drink it or perish miserably of thirst' . . . It took a full week-end before the last of them had found his way home." White analyzes the philosophy of fishing in a style that Izaak Walton might envy, and his descriptions of dartboard arcana and Welsh superstitions belong on the shelf alongside Dickens. Another, smaller book could be made of his observations: "The stomach is really the basis of nationalism." "The infallible test for a gentleman is to drop in on him unfed, and see what...
...Fort Walton Beach...
Remember UCLA's all-universe basketball line cups of the 60's and early 70's' Yeah, you know, the ones with Alcindor, Walton, Wickes, Rowe and Bibby. The teams that won 10 NCAA championships in 13 years Right UCLA...
...installed the system to handle minor administrative problems such as heating and parking. The program has generated an average of 13,000 letters annually in the past two years from IBM's 195,000 U.S. employees. About 70% of the questions are fielded by the personnel department. Says Walton E. Burdick, vice president of personnel: "The tone of the queries ranges all over the lot. Some are testy, but most are not." Another IBM program, called Open Door, encourages face-to-face meetings between executives and employees with something on their minds...