Fight to halt Sydney airport move prompts Roskill debate
The Roskill Commission chose Cublington for London’s third airport, with Foulness as an offshore alternative. Professor Buchanan urged planning priority over economics, while the commission relied on cost benefit analysis. Local residents rallied through Wing Airport Resistance Association to oppose intruding on their land and Norman church losses.
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Lelby
Cublington
London
Roskill Commission
Foulness
Thames Estuary
Colin Buchanan
Paulness
Britain
Roskill
Commission
Fune
Buchanan
Ha Aicourting
Wing Airport
John Betjeman
Vale of Aylesbury
England
Stewkley
Wara
Galston
Taming the Sea Turtle Study and Farm Solutions
A review outlines Robert Bustard’s Australian sea turtle work at Heron Island on green turtles. It covers mating, nesting, and hatchling patterns, plus Bustard’s plan to meet demand through turtle farms to protect wild populations and benefit coastal Indigenous communities.
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Bustard
Heron Island
Great Barrier Reef
Ges
Dr Bustard
Queensland
Corres Strait
Gulf of Carpentaria
Kay
Sage Prayr
Robent Bustard
Australia as Human Setting review of Rapoport book
Amos Rapoport's edited volume Australia as Human Setting gathers essays by 17 authors across geography architecture education law political science economics biology and ecology. The reviewer faults uneven cohesion and a glib critique of planning while praising individual essays and authors for wide readership potential despite no single expert consensus on the environmental crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aa Little
Australia
Rapoport
Canada
Amos Rapoport
Angus and Robertson
Faye
Uate
Hugh Stretton
Book notes on Robin Maugham and the Irish Guards history
A review discusses the book For Escapists Nowadays and Robin Maugham, noting it no longer draws prurient curiosity among the intelligent reader. It frames the work as a personal history of the Irish Guards during their first seventy years and comments on the author’s claim of personal narrative.
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Robin Maugham
Irish Guards
Y John D. MacDonald
Pan
The Youthful Opal Miners Fire In The Stone
Celia Thiele writes of a 14 year old Peter Palmer as a stylized fire bleeds through the opal field scene. Ernie Ryan emerges amid school environment and social views on Aborigines. The novel contrasts opinions of different people in opal mining communities with a reflective narrator.
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Ernie
The Absurdity of Life by Paul Theroux reviewed
Theroux’s novel follows Jack Flowers a Singapore based pimp narrator who journeys from desperate refugee to self styled missionary. The book blends humor and pathos as Flowers navigates aging, desire, a fleeting American R and R scene, and a looming death while weighing retirement dreams and moral costs.
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Jean la Broyere
Singapore
Flowers
Paradise Gardens
R and R
Vietnam
Cal
Jack Flowers
Santen
Leigh
Wiltshire
Margaret
Elmview
With a Grain of Salt The Home Book of American Cookery
A battered OCR fragment reviews a cookbook titled With a Grain of Salt The Home Book of American Cookery by Ninatte Lyon and Bruce H Axlar from Faber and Faber. The text hints at culinary tastes and social commentary but is garbled and unreadable in parts.
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Magis
Ninatte Lyon
Bruce H. Axlar
Faber and Faber
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Sydney
Curlington
David Perman
Robert Bustard
Collins
Kay's Turtles
Robert Busterd
Ken Eldridge
Elio Vandermark
Celia Thiele
Rigby
Peter Palmer
Ernie Ryan
Jack Flower
Rangoon
Saint Jack
Paul Theroux
the Bodley Head
John Hay
Anita Lynn
East Row
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