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...sports cars and sedans, creeping across the valley behind the slowest trailer. They forsake the beaches of Malibu and Carmel, the glamor of San Francisco and Bel Air. They leave behind the concession stands, theaters, and baseball diamonds and head for the mountains. They seek Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon--for the unmatched, glacier-carved grandeur of John Muir's "Range of Light...
...less orthodox expert, Edward D. McCarthy, has been observing nature's perversity for 70 winters now, and thinks there is something to be learned from it. He lives in Galeton (pop. 1,500), nestled in a canyon of the Pine River in northern Pennsylvania. "The river is frozen harder than the shady side of a banker's heart," he told TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis. "The rapids are silent, as if they're in an ice-cold grave. There have been no bear tracks for 20 days. God and Lady Nature have whispered in their ears and they...
Even with that money, enrollment in local public elementary schools is falling. At the Canyon School, for example, enrollment fell from a prebusing total of 300 students to 272; all but 66 are bused in. The Marquez School's rolls are down from 732 to 349. Wilson Riles, state superintendent of schools and a black, is gloomy about those figures. "If community schools expand very much, the public schools will become schools of paupers. I don't think these schools were meant to be an elitist thing, but it could develop into that." And, in fact, Dave Thomsen...
...percent of the nation's uranium lies in the Mountain West, with New Mexico and Utah supplying most of the region's ore. From Arizona comes more than half of all the copper dug in the U.S. each year; the Kennecott Copper Corp.'s Bingham Canyon open-pit mine in Utah, at two miles wide and a half-mile deep, the largest excavation in the world, alone has produced copper-over 11 million tons-than any other mine in history. The Climax mine near Leadville, Colo., last year supplied 49 million lbs. worth of molybdenum, a blue...
...certainly lived up to its' name. In its panoramic sweep the fire burned out 23,000 acres in San Bernardino County, the area hardest hit by the flames. Started by arson, the fire storm burned down the hillsides into the San Bernardino suburbs, then back up through Waterman Canyon. In affluent North Park, a roaring wall of flame incinerated whole blocks of expensive houses, leaving nothing but ashen rectangles and soot-covered swimming pools. Four died: an elderly couple who perished as they tried to save a pet, and two other people who died of heart attacks. Some...