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...last survivor of the Nez Perce War of 1877; in Lewiston, Idaho. Red Wolf was four when Chief Joseph's people were relentlessly attacked by the U.S. Cavalry as they made their famous retreat across the wilds of Idaho and Montana. In a major battle at Big Hole Basin, Montana, many of the Nez Perces were killed, including Red Wolf's mother and sister. Finally, on Oct. 5, 1877, Chief Joseph surrendered to the cavalry in Montana's frigid Bear Paw Mountains with the words: "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever...
...dawn promised a placid day: the first rays of a sun that would warm the Los Angeles basin to a summery 82° glimmered in the east. Then, at 41 seconds past 6, the earth rocked, jolting 10 million Southern Californians awake-and into instant wonderment or terror...
That will not be easy. California is perched on the so-called "Ring of Fire," -an earthquake-and volcano-prone region that circles the Pacific Basin. It reaches as far south as New Zealand on the west, north through Japan, across the Aleutians and down the coast of the Americas on the east. Only recently have geophysicists begun to understand what stokes the ring's "fires." The seismic activity, they think, is the result of slow, creeping movements of the Pacific Ocean floor against the continental margins that surround it. In California, these movements have produced a distinctive, local...
...term "regional novel" usually applies to cameos of life from the North Woods or the Spoon River basin, but it should probably be expanded to take in Boston and the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. There are more ethnic novels around these days-with the Jews, the Irish and the Italians fighting it out for the Nostalgia Cup as they once vied for control of city councils. The Governor, the latest Irish entry, is a genial updating of the late Edwin O'Connor's Boston. All it lacks is O'Connor's stereopticon skill at making...
...huge environmental blunder (TIME, April 13). By connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, the 9-ft.-deep waterway would have saved shippers a 600-mile journey around Florida. But, as Nixon's Council on Environmental Quality noted, its construction would have inundated the Oklawaha River basin, a unique and beautiful area abounding in wildlife. Critics also charged that the canal would pollute nearby ground-water supplies and they insisted that the locks would be too small to permit profitable traffic loads...