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Last week, in the high reaches of the Sierra Nevada's Le Conte Canyon, 57 air miles from Lone Pine, two geologists and a park ranger came upon pieces of wreckage wedged among rocks near the outlet of an unnamed lake. In the waters of the lake, searchers found a shattered B-24 and all that remained of Bob Hester and his comrades...
...discreet girl with wisdom apparently beyond her 23 years, Juliet keeps her private life to herself, yet openly and offhandedly refers to her evening drives out to Sinatra's Coldwater Canyon home. "We date. But I would not put it as a big romance. We get on very well together. Gossip doesn't worry me. I'm an open person. I've mixed around in this business long enough not to be embarrassed by anything pertaining...
...study American regional history is to listen to the music of Ferde Grofé. Among his nine schmalzy suites are musical chronicles of the Hudson River, the Mississippi, Death Valley and, most famed of all, the Grand Canyon. Last fortnight Memorialist Grofé. a vigorous 68, got around to San Francisco. Before an audience of proud local citizens, he conducted the première of his golden-gaited San Francisco Suite, tracing the fortunes of the city from gold-rush days to the present...
...maneuver the most promising men into the most advantageous committee assignments. No local bridge-building bill is too far from Texas or too petty for his full attention, if it will help a colleague's progress toward re-election (Johnson's work in pushing through the Hells Canyon project won him the devotion and friendship of Oregon's late, ultra-liberal Richard Neuberger for the rest of his life). All Johnson asks in return is undeviating loyalty to L.B.J., his leadership and his program. And if a Senator is so ungrateful or independent as to stray from...
Gangsterland. Most are businessmen, or upper-income tourists who must "justify" their U.S. trip as business because of currency restrictions, though such restraints are being eased in many parts of the world, notably prospering Europe. Nearly all want to see the Grand Canyon, a U.S. supermarket and Disneyland. After King Mohammed V of Morocco paid an official visit to Disneyland, he returned later in civilian clothes, paid his own way to see it all again...