Word: canyoneering
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...narrow gully bakes like an oven in the fall sun, and the canyon that engulfs it is silent, save for an occasional magpie's cry. Under a juniper, two cowboys hunch for shade and wait for a signal...
...start-up of the big Diablo Canyon plant in California last month was supposed to give nuclear power a much needed boost. Televised noisy demonstrations by protesters who contended that the plant had been built too close to an earthquake fault had failed to stop it. But then, just as fuel was about to be loaded for test production, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the plant's owner, discovered a startling error: pipes meant for one area of the plant had been installed in another. P G & E halted operations until the foul-up could be rectified, which will happen...
Moreover, Diablo Canyon is only the most conspicuous and embarrassing reverse the industry has suffered. Some other setbacks that have occurred in the past three months...
...Boulanger, performing tudor music, music "in the halls for which it was written," singing under Bernstein for Pope Paul VI. There are other memories, of course: private conversations with members of the Czechoslovakian chorus, watching the sunrise with other Glee Club members on the North rim of the Grand Canyon...
Brown, who is perhaps the nation's most visible advocate of alternate energy sources, may soon face the embarrassment of presiding over the arrests of scores of antinuclear protesters. They are planning a demonstration against the as-yet-unscheduled opening of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near Avila Beach, some 60 miles north of Santa Barbara. Brown had joined a rally against the plant in 1979. But nuclear facilities are under federal jurisdiction, and Brown says he has no choice but to let Diablo Canyon operate once it is licensed. Of the expected protesters, he says: "Those breaking...