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...marvelous view-on clear days-of Mount McKinley and the Alaska Range. There was a hitch: there were no roads into the area and no bridges. In winter you could walk across the frozen river; in summer you could take a boat. But during the spring breakup and the autumn freeze-up the only way you could cross the Susitna was to hire Bush Pilot Don Sheldon to fly you from Talkeetna on the eastern bank over to Old Homesteader Shorty Bradley's pasture on the western side. The land-office man in Anchorage warned them, "That river...
...good autumn week, a commercial fisherman trawling for shrimp along the Atlantic Coast off Georgia or the Carolinas can usually bring in a catch of about 1,200 lbs. But this season is a disaster because the crop was killed off by a cold snap in December. Last week the nets were pulling in a disappointing 500 lbs. or less. For hundreds of fisher men in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida who make their living from shrimp the dismal catch has brought severe financial strains. Many fear foreclosure on their boats and homes. Says Leonard Crosby, president of the Bryan...
...prosecution of the war. Schooled by U.S. military instructors in aggressive patrolling tactics and re-equipped with more than $130 million in U.S. aid approved by Congress after Duarte's election, the military appears to have taken the initiative from the F.M.L.N. So far, a much feared autumn offensive by the rebels has failed to materialize. Almost daily, Salvadoran newspapers carry reports of defections by the insurgents or of arms caches turned up during army sweeps in the countryside. Complains an F.M.L.N. official in Mexico City: "Many of our fighters have to go into combat barefoot." Guerrilla spokesmen also...
This may sound like a far-fetched abstraction, but then you've probably never been to Belfast or Londonderry. It may seem over-dramatic, but then it's difficult to visualize from the third story of the New York Times a massive explosion in the middle of a clear autumn night in a provincial hotel, which came so perilously near to killing the entire British cabinet. It seems as unreal as the Royal Wedding...
Another sale looms at Reyers Shoe Store in Sharon, Pa., and that is a little like saying another leaf is falling from another tree in autumn. Reyers has sales almost constantly. Next week, for example, is the fall sale. There are more sales before Thanksgiving and before Christmas. Finally comes the January clearance, in which everything that did not get sold in the previous sales goes on sale...