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...keep warm." It is 0900 hours, with a -15° F wind-chill factor, and the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Mackinaw is about to slip her berth in Sault Ste. Marie. She is headed for Whitefish Bay, a shallow and troublesome body of water leading into the treacherous inland sea that is Lake Superior. In 1975 the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald, eulogized by Singer Gordon Lightfoot, was heading for shelter in the bay through a November gale when she sank with a crew of 29. In real winter, which in these parts begins in late December and does...
...children of a vice president of Chicago's Inland Steel Co., Byrne attended Barat College in suburban Lake Forest, then married a Marine Corps pilot. A 1959 crash left her widowed with an 18-month-old daughter, and she plunged into politics. Her first hero was Jack Kennedy. She became secretary-treasurer of his Chicago Citizens Committee, and she worked so hard that even Mayor Daley heard about her. He became her second hero...
Environmentalists too are worried about the unknown, particularly about the effect of heavily saline discharges into inland California waters. Recently, they forced a 15-mile rerouting of the proposed viaduct at an extra cost of $60 million. Says the Sierra Club's Peter Zars: "Our primary concern has been the amount of residual fertilizers and pesticides that would be discharged." Yet almost everyone agrees something must be done to save the San Joaquin. Warns State Conservation Department Director Priscilla Grew: "If we want to have long-term agriculture in the valley, we have to address the problem...
...racing experience began at Sugarloaf in Maine, where her family took regular inland trips from their home in coastal Rockland. There she participated in Eastern threes and fours races with skiers up to 13 years...
...church and its secular image), still feel his eccentric pursuit of poverty is misplaced in a bishop. Topel is indeed much loved and admired for his unworldly show, but not all of his views sit easily with members of the diocese. In a column written for the weekly Inland Register, Topel once addressed the topic "Black Is Beautiful" and ended by giving three reasons he might like to be black himself. An irritated parishioner thereupon dropped off a box of black shoe polish. The bishop laughed. And, no doubt, joyfully applied the blacking to the dead priest's shoes...