Word: missoula
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Youth is not alone. In Missoula, Mont., for example, housewives outraged by the foul smells from a local pulp plant have organized GASP (Gals Against Smoke and Pollution). Similar groups have used the same acronym in other cities including Washington, where GASP stands for Greater Alliance to Stop Pollution. In Berkeley, a group called Ecology Action has developed a kind of street theater to dramatize pollution protests. To celebrate "Smog-Free Locomotion Day," the members recently took to pogo sticks, stilts, bicycles, unicycles, roller skates-any and every alternative to the internal combustion engine. Later they symbolically buried an auto...
STEVE ARNO Missoula, Mont...
Recognizing the difficulties of putting out huge fires, scientists at the U.S. Forest Service's Northern Forest Fire Laboratory, established at Missoula, Mont., in 1960, are concentrating on prevention and early detection techniques. Their most dramatic accomplishment to date is the perfection of an aerial infrared scanner that can detect fire in a small bucket in a forest 15,000 feet below. Installed aboard a Convair, it has been flown over areas recently struck by lightning and has already picked up 220 fires-which show up as white spots in an infrared photograph. Forest rangers discovered that many were...
CHARLENE M. WOODCOCK Missoula, Mont...
...approaches to his business is good recruiting: ten out of the twelve players on the Duke squad are out-of-staters. To land Center Mike Lewis, a 6-ft. 7-in. sophomore who has averaged 13.3 rebounds per game this season, Bubas reached all the way to Missoula, Mont. -on the recommendation of a Duke coed whose brother had played with Lewis in high school. Figuring that the coal and steel country of Pennsylvania ought to be a happy hunting ground for raw basketball talent as well as for football, Bubas conducted a discreet investigation-and found Forward Jack Marin...