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...years in a California reformatory, two more in jail for smuggling narcotics. Paroled at 20, he drifted to the flowering world of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, where he became a member of the Hare Krishna cult and custodian of the Radha Krishna temple. But the surrounding Hashbury mi lieu disturbed him: "I felt the hip scene was filled with plastic love and plastic peace. Their love was lust and their peace was a finger sign." Finally, Hoyt encountered one of the first of the new "Jesus people," a Baptist seminarian named Kent Philpott, now 28. Philpott...
Everything about Alaska is extreme. It is physically as big as Texas, California and Montana combined?586,000 sq. mi. Just one of Alaska's scores of blue-green glaciers is the size of Holland; one wildlife preserve could hold Hungary. Alaska's 33,000-mile coastline doubles that of all the coterminous U.S. While Port Walter in the southern panhandle is flooded by 18 feet of annual rainfall, the wind-dried North Slope is an Arctic desert that gets only four inches of precipitation a year. At Fort Yukon in the vast central plateau region, temperatures plummet from 100?...
...natural wonders. The pipeline would occupy less than 15 sq. mi. of Alaska. Still, it would cross 4,800-ft. mountains, 23 rivers, 124 streams and three active earthquake zones. A single rupture could dump as much as 20,000 bbl. of oil, killing all wildlife for miles around. Moreover, tanker spills off Valdez could irreparably harm Alaska's fishing industry. In Arctic waters, where the cold prevents oil molecules from breaking down, the damage could be drastic...
...honor the centennial of Canada's vast and sparsely settled Northwest Territories (1.3 million sq. mi.; pop. 33,000), Elizabeth II of England this week is pushing farther north than any of her predecessors have ever gone on a ceremonial tour. On her ten-day, 4,000-mile itinerary is a stop at the village of Resolute Bay, 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle, where the entourage (100) will nearly equal the residents...
...when the U.S. Government began buying land in earnest, federal holdings have grown enormously, and so have the headaches. Today the Government owns 755 million acres of land, one-third of the nation. The result is a poorly managed tangle of jurisdictions, contradictions and bureaucracies; a 100-by-50-mi. area of southeast Idaho, for example, is administered by more than 100 federal, state, county and local agencies...