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Restless Natives. Mostly, they are high-priced professionals-doctors, dentists, lawyers-plus bankers, stockbrokers and real estate agents. An area known variously as "Couch Canyon" and "Libido Lane" houses most of the city's 198 psychiatrists, or approximately one to every 166 residents (compared with the national average of one per 1,100). There is no heavy industry and no effort to attract any. There are 22 banks, nine hotels, the cleanest jail in the county, and a chamber of commerce that couldn't care less. There are 65 acres of parks and playgrounds but no pool hall...
Actually, it was not that clear-cut a victory. Though the case was the biggest public-v. private-power dispute since the private Idaho Power Co. won the right to build three dams on the Hell's Canyon stretch of the Snake River ten years ago, there were complicating factors, as the FPC, painstakingly pointed out in its three-part decision...
Shortly after dawn, the party of twelve doughty adventurers donned life jackets, split into pairs and shoved off from shore on half a dozen rubber rafts. Mission: to shoot the rapids of the swirling Rio Grande as it passes through 1,900-ft.-deep Mariscal Canyon in Texas' Big Bend National Park. A jagged rock gashed one raft, temporarily putting it out of commission, but Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 65, and his bride of six months negotiated the hair-raising 14 miles of pounding waves, treacherous turns and large rocks without a spill. First-Timer Joan Douglas...
...factors can be separated in any structure, he has designed a "tensegrity mast" that seems to be held up by nothing at all. But Fuller insists that with this mast combined with his frame of tetrahedron-octahedron combinations which he calls the "octet truss," he could bridge the Grand Canyon itself...
...Canyons with Roofs. Actual work on the Mountain Park project awaits only the approval of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, which must authorize zoning changes. The commission is studying the daring master plan: houses cantilevered from slopes of hills; factories hidden in "caves"?actually canyons with roofs built over them; high-rise apartments sited on the crests of ridges to provide tenants spectacular views without obstructing the views of others. One breathtaking idea is a bridge crossing a canyon to link one section of the mountain roadway; Pereira suggests that the bridge be paid for with the rents...