Word: montana
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Guilty Without Trial. Fortunately, this situation is bound to improve-all because of Madeline Colliflower, 46, a stubborn member of the Gros Ventre tribe (part of the Blackfoot nation) on Montana's Fort Belknap reservation. In 1963 the tribal court ordered Mrs. Colliflower to quit pasturing her cattle in someone else's field. Having apparently ignored the order, she was arrested by the reservation's Police Chief Joe Plumage and Officer Lyle Reddog, and haled before Indian Judge Cranston Hawley. She pleaded not guilty. But without ever giving her a trial, Judge Hawley offered her the choice...
...Colliflower chose jail-and thereby aroused the sympathy of the Rev. Francis Conklin, a Jesuit law professor at Spokane's Gonzaga University. Claiming a patent denial of due process, Father Conklin petitioned Montana's U.S. District Judge William J. Jameson to spring Mrs. Colliflower on a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Jameson dismissed the case on the ground that he was "without jurisdiction...
...about ready to holler calf rope when his knife fell out of his pocket. I slammed it into his hip and started for the setting sun." Somewhere west of Jacksboro, Jim stopped running and took his first job as a cowboy: trail hand on a cattle drive to Montana. At 15, he pulled a man's weight on the job, running all night with the stampeding herd and even swimming the notorious Yellowstone River (" Tis such a suck to it that to sink is a gone fawn skin") with his bunch of cattle. The work was hard, McCauley recalls...
Poolroom Processing. Modern seismometers have such good ears that they must be buried deep in relatively uninhabited areas to be as free as possible from the surface noises of wind, rain, traffic and grazing cattle. Known as LASA, for Large Aperture Seismic Array, the Montana system was laid out to get the best possible signal-to-noise ratio; it promises to provide a twentyfold improvement in the U.S.'s ability to detect seismic signals. With so many instruments spaced so far apart, it will also be possible to trace the direction and distance of an incoming signal because...
...each cluster, the Montana seismometers are set like spokes in a wheel, and at the center of each wheel is a small vault housing instruments for collecting the seismic signals. After the signals are picked up and amplified, they are translated into digital data and transmitted over telephone lines and radio to a data-processing center in a converted poolroom 140 miles away in Billings. The signals are eventually sent to M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass., where computers are programmed to determine more precisely the source and direction of the vibrations and whether they were caused...