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First to arrive at the Portofino last week was a '73 Dodge Challenger driven by 1971 Winner Yates and fellow New Yorker Steve Behr. The Dodge was the first car to leave Manhattan, got lost south of Flagstaff, Ariz., and placed third with an elapsed time of 38 hr. 3 min. Blaming the loss on an ill-chosen shortcut, Yates complained: "I think we hit every state coming across except Alaska and Utah. And that road looked so good...
...North of Harvard Square on Mass Ave in the information booth-Flagstaff park area across from Church Street...
...traditional hardships of the concert circuit - captious critics, eccentric plane schedules, hotel-room mix-ups - pianists have lately been coping with a rash of recalcitrant and faulty instruments. "Twice in two weeks I've had the keys come right off the piano," says Byron Janis. "In Flagstaff, Arizona, I was in the middle of Rachmaninoff's G-Minor Piano Concerto when all of a sudden a tiny jagged piece of wood jabbed my finger where the B-flat had been a second before. A week later at the University of Maryland, a bass A-flat flew...
...armed with a new doctorate in geology from Harvard, Schmitt joined the U.S. Geological Survey at Flagstaff, Ariz. There he was assigned the job of assembling photographs taken by unmanned Ranger spacecraft into detailed lunar maps for future moon walkers. Schmitt was fascinated by the task. Recalls former NASA Geologist Gene Shoemaker: "Jack caught the space bug." Indeed, as soon as NASA began recruiting scientist-astronauts in 1965, Schmitt applied. He was accepted despite a minor physical problem: an unusual and painful elongation of the large intestine...
...Although the Italian word can simply mean channels or grooves, it was promptly translated into English as canals, which suggested that they were artificially made. That inspired an erstwhile American diplomat named Percival Lowell (of the Boston Lowells) to take up astronomy and establish an observatory near dry, cloudless Flagstaff, Ariz., principally to study Mars. Lowell spotted hundreds of "canals" on the Martian surface and contributed the theory that they were the work of an advanced civilization. Belief in intelligent life on Mars was dramatized by H.G. Wells in his novel The War of the Worlds and carried into contemporary...