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Most stop in the low camps, squeezing their "family-size" tents into the crowded confines of the valley. Some--braver souls who don't mind a half-mile hike or an occasional bear-venture to higher regions, spending the week at Tenaya, or Tioga, or Tuolomne. And then there are those who are not content near even the last vestiges of civilization. They are the back-packers--and they roam the High Sierra...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Head for the Hills, Quietly | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...would be deployed is now under review. A plan to move the mobile missile on tracks through vast stretches of Utah and Nevada has drawn sharp opposition in those states. A proposal to place up to 320 Tomahawk cruise missiles, which can hurl nuclear warheads over a 1,500-mile range, on each of the two battleships would also strengthen the U.S. nuclear arsenal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bonanza for Defense | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...NOTEBOOK: The top six finishers in the mile at the NCAAs received All-American status, including Georgetown's olympian John Gregorek in sixth place...The rivalry between Beckford and Clark dates back several years to when the two competed in the national junior championships...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Beckford Wins Title; Dixon Fifth | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

Dixon hung with the pack in his heat, one of three that were run, until the halfway point in the race, when he followed Brigham Young's "Perdie" Perdia who took a commanding lead. Perdie, who has run a 3:56 mile indoors, won the race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

...finals, the man to beat is Texas-El Paso's Suleiman Nyambui, a 28-year-old junior from Tanzania and the two-time defending NCAA mile and two-mile champion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

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