Word: canyoneering
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...tizzy trying to locate what they assumed to be a classified Air Force base. Finally the Air Force broke down and admitted that it was all an interdepartmental joke-Hodag Missile Base in Hodag, Ark., is a fictional site where Milton Caniff s comic-strip hero. Colonel Steve Canyon, recently settled a labor dispute. Growled Goldberg sheepishly: "My God, a guy has to read the funny papers to find out what's going on around here." Stale Turkey. Not all of Goldberg's labor problems are so fictional or so funny. Last week Secretary Goldberg, who gets paid...
...hulk that cuts off the January sun at 3:30 p.m. and sends swimming pool loungers shivering toward the bar. But previously inaccessible Mount San Jacinto is soon to be a resort area itself. The world's largest passenger-carrying tramway will lift vacationers from oven-like Chino Canyon to a winter-temperature summer resort some 5,900 ft. above-from the California desert to the California Alps in 15 minutes...
...mountains that they nominate Grant for a third term. While other cowpunchers twanged The Old Chisholm Trail, Ashurst (who knew countless stanzas, both clean and dirty, of that song) quoted Shakespeare to the coyotes and the stars. "I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon." he said years later. "As a matter of course, I went into politics...
...torture Presidents with the doings of their relatives; the current President is particularly vulnerable since he is related to almost as many people as there are voters. I think it unfair to give the impression that my onetime stepfather* is committing an act comparable to filling in the Grand Canyon for personal profit...
...best developed and most consistent in any comic strip--lobby in The Black Book for an idyl and a humorous view of life; just as the characters in other common strips lobby, with terrible earnestness, for their own interests. You know, Buz Sawyer for the Navy, Steve Canyon for the Air Force, Little Orphan Annie for the Jack Acids and Goldwatery cranks. With the Black Book to hearten it, the Pogo lobby will continue to support...