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...seemed almost motionless in space. Just behind him, in twinkling miniature, lay the sweep of San Francisco Bay; ahead, curving gently with the earth, was the hot yellow of Death Valley and the desert wastes beyond. And below, like the riffles in a child's papier-mache relief map, were the grey granite thrusts and the white snow splotches of California's rugged Sierra Nevada range. In this country, pioneers had baked-or frozen-as they struggled westward a century before. Eastbound Dave Steeves was due at his home base in Selma, Ala. in about four hours...
...snow-filled gorges, sleeping in hollow logs and under sheltering rocks. In 18 days he went 25 miles, finally got to Simpson Meadow (elevation: 6,000 ft.). There, crazed from hunger, he stumbled on a park ranger's storage shed. Breaking in, he found more matches, fishhooks, a map of the area and a tiny store of provisions-a can of beans, hash, tomatoes. He wrapped himself in canvas, rationed the food so that it would last, and waited for his ankles to get better...
...corner, Otis won his impassioned fight, watched with satisfaction when the dredges moved into San Pedro and turned a few acres of mud flats into one of the busiest harbors in the world. The city of Los Angeles then annexed a 20-mile-long shoestring of land (see map) to bring the harbor within its limits...
...oilmen, the potential of the Great Slave oil has long been only a tantalizing dream. No one had much encouragement until this year. Then Phillips Petroleum and Home Oil Co., which were exploring in the Peace River area far to the south where oil had already been found (see map), brought in three wildcat wells near Lesser Slave Lake in a previously untapped rock formation that was the same as that at Great Slave Lake. The discovery touched off Canada's biggest oil play since the great Leduc and Pembina oilfields were tapped...
...adventure. As the private talks ranged from the Middle East to Russia to defense, one newsmaking proposal came from Canada's Diefenbaker. Having campaigned on a pledge to seek new markets for exports within the Commonwealth, he invited Commonwealth Finance Ministers to meet in Ottawa in September to map an agenda for a full-scale trade conference...