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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elk Grove rebounded from the loss to be named third best team in the nation in one poll and Mark Kirkland went East to the scenic shores of the River Charles...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Chemical Benzene Rings Replace Basketball Rims | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

With a little coaxing, he tells of the big showdown with Elk Grove High School, which was led by Bill Cartwright, who now plays center on that wunderkind, 29-2, University of San Francisco team. Cartwright was averaging about 50 points a game, give or take a dozen, but on this particular evening he was held to 14 by Kirkland...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Chemical Benzene Rings Replace Basketball Rims | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

Kirkland then drove the lane, tieing the game and drawing a foul. Talk about PRESSURE, and storybook finishes. With college scouts and big press writeups hovering in the wings, Kirkland sunk the shot and Elk Grove High...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Chemical Benzene Rings Replace Basketball Rims | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

...temperatures from the tip of Lapland to the boot of Italy soaring into the 90s day after day. Palermo recorded 105°, Cannes 98°, Helsinki 90°. In Stockholm's outskirts, where the mercury rose to 95° for the first time since 1811, a heat-crazed elk burst out of the woods, plunged into a suburban swimming pool and splashed madly back and forth before finally being rescued by amused firemen. While Moscow shivered under cold blasts from the north that plunged temperatures into the mid-30s and brought topcoats out of summer storage, the Siberian city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Those Vaguely Sinister Skies | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

Among other overlooked camping areas within easy reach of a city is Montana's Fishtrap fishing-access site in the Big Hole River Valley, about 40 miles southwest of Butte. Not far from its campsites, moose, elk, deer, antelope, mountain sheep and goats graze. Fishtrap is a "blue-ribbon" fishing area-the state's highest designation-whose streams teem with rainbow, brown and cutthroat trout. Relatively few visitors have discovered the Bighorn River south of Billings, Mont., which encompasses mountains, upland prairie, desert and wetlands and the Pryor Mountains, with prehistoric caves to explore. In Wyoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Adventure in Tranquil Places | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

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