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...delights and contemptuously unforgiving of just one human mistake. Well was this known to the 1,600 boating buffs who drove across the Mormon desert country in southeastern Utah last weekend and unhitched their outboards on the verdant shores of the Green River for the second annual 196-mile Canyon Country Friendship Cruise. Into the water they went, dodging sandbars, winding past craggy red cliffs, through deep and colorfully named canyons-Moonshining, Hell Roaring, Upheaval...
...here, going to the town dump in a nearby canyon has long been a favorite pastime, not only on Sunday. In the cool of the evening, the pines surround the area, dark and mysterious, and the purple mountains are etched against the glow of the setting sun. Families of sleek skunks sally forth to seek food in among the old car bodies, washing machines, boxes, and tires. Indeed we must claim the most beautiful dump in the country...
Newspaper comic strips were once considered something for the kiddies, but through the years they have reached more and more toward the adult. Li'I Abner is a backwoods peepshow, abounding in pork-fed bosoms and thighs. Steve Canyon is an illustrated primer on military chess and international intrigue. The only violence not yet committed on the ageless person of Orphan Annie is rape. Even Peanuts, a comic with its points for young and old, is often a subtle dose of child psychology. Last week a comic created and drawn just for the kiddies-and, what's more...
Neat. The next night, the latest episode of the Steve Canyon series (NBC) demonstrated that even a fictionalized story based on Milton Caniff's comic strip can hardly outrace reality. It is, after all, possible for a carelessly fired deer rifle to damage the window of a parked B-47. The damage could very well spread under the stress of flight. And when a window blows out at 46,000 feet, pilot and copilot alike might just possibly be too stunned to nose down to safety. Granted those coincidences, the rest of Operation Intercept was a neat exercise...
Command Pilot Stevenson B. Canyon (Dean Fredericks) climbed aloft in his F-102 to examine the flying derelict, and Canyon's first sight of the frozen, frost-covered pilots, still strapped in their seats, added up to terrifying snapshots of disaster. After that, Canyon's shooting the B-47 down with rocket fire-because a tail wind might possibly push it all the way to Russia-seemed reasonable. For the peacetime Air Force is a weapon in the cold war, and an unarmed plane might easily be mistaken for a belligerent...