Word: itasca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public knows, Earhart and Noonan left Lae, New Guinea, on July 1, 1937, on the most dangerous leg of their trip-a 2,550-mile leap to tiny (one square mile) Rowland Island, where no plane had ever landed before. Early on July 2, the Coast Guard cutter Itasca, standing by at Rowland, received a series of messages from Pilot Earhart reporting that she was unsure of her position and that she was running low on gas. Her last message, delivered in a broken and choked voice, was a plea for a fix on her position. Too late. Itasca failed...
...NEWS ENCORE (NBC, 6:20-7:20 p.m.). David Brinkley is "Our Man on the Mississippi," taking a camera cruise from Lake Itasca, Minn., to Pilottown, La., and never the Twain shall meet. Repeat...
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...until it is cool enough to be sifted by hand). In Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest, the streams rippled with trout (provided by the wildlife commissions), and the campsites, many with their own blacktop driveways, rippled with people. The rhododendron overhung the creeks in Minnesota's Lake Itasca State Park, and little boys overhung the rhododendron, while some of their fathers were just hung over, gazing blankly at the huge oaks, hickories. spruces and poplars. At Kennedy Meadow, just north of Yosemite Park in the California Sierra, campers hiked along a winding stream through pine and fir forests...