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December 1969

14 years ago By admin

Volume

21

Issue

1

ORGANIZING FOR 1970 UTILITIES IN HOT WATER YANKEE LOGIC THE DREAM OF A LIFETIME … … AND THE FACTS OF ENCROACHMENT THE PELICAN IN PERIL

Stories published from "December 1969"

Catastrophe By The Numbers

Authored by: Charlton Ogburn, Jr.

In terms of consumption and pollution, America is the most overpopulated nation on earth. We think we can afford it—but we are leading the world to

Conservation Equals Survival

Authored by: Wallace Stegner

Wise men like Thomas Jefferson have always known how to live with the earth instead of against it. We need to develop a land ethic, with wise stewardship and a respect for the earth.

The Gallantry of An “Ugly Duckling”

Authored by: Robert L. Vargas

Outgunned by the Nazi raider, the Stephen Hopkins could have struck her colors. Instead she elected to fight

There Was A Storm Outside And A Bit Of Frost Within

Authored by: William Manners

(when Taft succeeded Teddy Roosevelt) (at one of the White House’s most unfortunate house parties)

The Lower Depths Of Higher Education

Authored by: Morris Bishop

Do today’s turbulent college campuses make you long for the good old days? The facts may dampen your nostalgia

The Death Of A Hero

Authored by: James Thomas Flexner

Mortally ill as his century dwindled to its close, Washington was helped to his grave by physicians who clung to typical eighteenth-century remedies. But he died as nobly as he had lived

A Flier’s Journal

Authored by: Gen. George C. Kenney

The planes were fragile and the Boche was tough, but the girls were pretty, the wine was good, and death was something that happened to someone else

1857

Authored by: Oliver Jensen

Is it really true that the more things change, the more they stay the same? Once upon a time, before the bureaucratic society, before modern war and technology, there was a very different world, and not so long ago. Let us revisit, picking at random, the year

The Lonely War Of A Good Angry Man

Authored by: David McCullough

In the hills of Kentucky a small-town lawyer named Harry Caudill battles to save his homeland from the ravages of strip mining

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