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...skirt because she'd been told that Canadians can't stand American women in slacks, Miss Craven journeyed north by small boat from Vancouver into the Queen Charlotte Straits of British Columbia in search of adventure and material. Her trip ended at the top of King-come Inlet, in a village of the Kwakiutl Indians. Kingcome is a place of icy water, deep, fir-trimmed inlets, returning salmon, foraging killer whales, overwhelming beauty and, for the once proud Kwakiutls, overwhelming sadness. Even the young are not sure they can face going "outside" to school and trying to live...
...have engaged in chases in Florida, no better prepared for the eventualities that lurked there. Growing up within sight of the lighthouse at Ponce DeLeon Inlet, known to locals as Mosquito Lagoon, I remain paralyzed by that romanticism of youth which is more healthily shed. As the lobster ages, he abandons the old shell and there grows a larger suit to fit his larger conception of the world. The waters are too warm for lobsters in Florida...
...Plunkett (not their real names) when they vacationed in Maine four years ago. A year later, Bob quit his city job as a commercial artist, and the couple sank all of their $26,000 savings in a partially completed home 15 feet from the waves on an inlet in Maine...
...windswept Baltic inlet only a few miles from Helsinki sits a starkly modern building, an angular Finnish masterpiece in white pine and fieldstone, which houses the student union of Helsinki's Technical University. There, around a hollow six-sided table, the representatives of 32 European countries plus the U.S. and Canada took their places last week to begin talks that may lead to the most significant conference in Europe's postwar history...
...Then De Ross he swims out into the inlet and comes back about 2-3 hours later with mud on him. And walks the five miles home. But he didn't know that more cops were all waiting for him back at his house...