Word: cottonwoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twenty miles southeast of Salt Lake City, the buff granite cliffs surrounding Little Cottonwood Canyon are broken by barred, concrete-framed tunnel openings. Behind the bank-vault doors with in, protected by a temperature that remains almost constant near 57 °F., and a humidity that hovers between 40% and 50%, is the world's largest collection of family records: more than 650,000 rolls of microfilm carrying more than 500 million pages of genealogical statistics going back as far as the 14th century. Only the direct hit of a nuclear bomb could endanger them...
...across Alaska last week in the worst series of forest fires that the state has seen in nearly a decade. Culminating a summer in which more than 200 fires have occurred, the biggest fire of all raged around the Fortymile River's West Fork, consuming the black spruce, cottonwood and paper birch and turning the green hills to barren black. At week's end, six other major fires spreading across a 500-mile arc still ravaged the nation's largest state...
...evening temperatures 10° cooler than the low lying parts of the state and, more important, a dry climate, Kerrville is highly regarded by those wanting to escape the oppressive humidity of Houston. Watered by the Guadalupe River, the site is crisscrossed with streams, verdant with cypress, oak, pecan and cottonwood. Kerr County has long been a ranching center, and the resort houses often retain the ranch-house look, but with a difference: one Houston millionaire has installed an indoor heated swimming pool in his hilltop home. For dedicated huntsmen who cannot find the time to take African safaris, there...