Word: canyoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shop and walked out with a black bear. A store in suburban Seattle is advertising a special on baby elephants (two for $9,998 and one free). A terrified Boston girl bought a five-foot indigo snake as a wedding gift for her fiance. Hunter Nick Del Duca, in Canyon City, Colo., has orders for six Colorado mountain lion cubs at $150 apiece, and can sell as many more as he can catch...
...Their Lives. Under the ceaseless pounding of last week's wind-whipped rains, dams burst, quiet rivers turned into leaping furies and swept beyond their banks, the melting snows of the Sierra and other western ranges poured relentlessly into the valleys. One place alone - Blue Canyon in the High Sierra -got a torrential 24.67 in. of rain in five days. Whole villages disappeared, homes and bridges toppled, and the streets of cities and towns became ca nals as thousands upon thousands of refugees, aided by disaster rescue crews, ran for their lives...
...Grand Canyon is, not only in its sweeping vistas but in the close-up details of rock, water, and unique life forms that would be drowned by the dams. The narrative starts with the story of a hazardous 17-day boat trip the author took through the Grand Canyon, and rises to a reasoned, passionate plea for preserving the place unblocked by the curved concrete of progress...
Married. Lance Reventlow, 28, auto-racing son of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton; and Cheryl Holdridge, 19, California-born starlet (A Summer Place); he for the second time (his first: Jill St. John); in Hollywood. Mom's wedding present: a $500,000 mansion in Benedict Canyon, near San Francisco...
...lives with her husband, Set and Costume Designer Tony Walton, and two-year-old daughter in a rented Spanish villa with a warm-water pool in Coldwater Canyon. She doesn't smoke, but she will now and then take a little brandy and soda. With ice? Unthinkable. She would love to be able to play tennis, but she says she is too awkward: "If I throw a ball overhand," she says, "I without fail will be flat on my bottom." She confides that she would really "like to be a sexy bombshell. But I'm not and never...