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...country, where the frontier spirit lingers and distance, paradoxically, draws people together. Whatever the reason, something remarkable has taken place in Rapid City, S. Dak., since the Black Hills town of 44,000 was devastated by flash floods. In the disaster caused by torrential rains and the collapse of Canyon Lake Dam, more than 200 died, another 500 remained missing and some 1,000 houses were destroyed. The damage passed $ 100 million...
...Says Ida: "I asked, 'Do you ever use this boat?' And he said 'Nope.' Then I asked if it just stood there with a full crew ready all the time. And he said 'Yep.' " Terry Moore tells of a flight over the Grand Canyon with "the two of us alone in one of his big Constellations. He promised to buy me a wonderful lunch when we landed, but Howard never carried any money and I had only 97?. So that's all we could afford. We went back to Los Angeles flat broke...
...taken apart and rewoven into an expansive shifting pattern of space. Wofford, who teaches art at Bennington College, regards a visit he paid to the Southwest in 1968 as one of the key experiences in his work-especially some nights he spent camping on the edge of the Grand Canyon, which provoked a long autobiographical poem named Grand Canyon Search Ceremony as well as a number of paintings: "It was a holy atmosphere, so silent, so vast; I was stunned...
...Phelan manuscript. Noah Dietrich began working on a book about Hughes in Los Angeles during 1969. Jim Phelan, his collaborator, is a widely experienced newspaperman and investigative reporter who has written five magazine articles on Hughes. Says Dietrich: "Phelan would come up to my house in Benedict Canyon and I would dictate to his tape recorder. One hundred hours of tapes. Then he digested this and wrote down a lot of questions, and I dictated a whole batch of memos to my secretary...
...discovery. Recently oil and gas were discovered off Sable Island, Nova Scotia, and hopes soared. Geologists concluded that the find was probably part of a pool extending southward to North Carolina, and oilmen accelerated the Atlantic search. Most promising sites so far: Georges Bank Trough off Massachusetts, Baltimore Canyon Trough off the Middle Atlantic states and Blake Plateau off Florida. As Geologist Wilson Laird, the consortium's spokesman, told TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron: "We won't know if there is a single drop of oil until we actually drill for it. But based on the topographical configurations that...