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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doig, like Swan, came west to Puget Sound. Raised on a rough succession of sheep and cattle ranches in Montana's high country and in those stark, one-street towns with a post office, filling-station, store, and three saloons, he felt drawn farther west--to Seattle with its more "workable," "soft-toned" winters, a better environment for a young journalist. After 20 years of magazine writing, Doig published his first book, This House of Sky, in 1978, composing it of memories of his early life in Montana with his father. He was surprised to find himself nominated...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: The Land Remembers | 1/13/1981 | See Source »

...choir of 500 boys and girls from local schools in Silent Night as 10,000 Bostonians sang along. In Chicago 2,300 amateurs filled Orchestra Hall to overflowing for the city's fifth annual sing-it-yourself production of Handel's Messiah. Jeane Moore, a Montana housewife, flew 1,600 miles from Kalispell just to sing in Chicago after seeing the concert last year on television. Said Conductor Margaret Hillis to an earnest cast, as an all-volunteer, 100-piece orchestra (aged twelve to 74) tuned up: "Handel would be delighted." And suddenly, there was with the angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joyful Christmas Sounds and Sites | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...Montana-born Thurow is a professor of economics and management at M.I.T. and was an adviser to George McGovern during the 1972 presidential campaign. He is the author of one of this year's most provocative books on the economy, The Zero-Sum Society. In it he argues in favor of a greater redistribution of income and wealth in American society. He also supports more Government involvement in planning the development of key economic sectors, especially new technologies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Faces on the Board | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...wave of settlers has by no means crested: the Census Bureau predicts that during the 1980s, seven of the eight Mountain States will be among the country's ten fastest growing states (the one exception: Montana, which will rank seventeenth).* Within the next 20 years, the population of the region is expected to grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocky Mountain High | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Elmer the 57, was born on Riverside, a 25,000-acre ranch in the Smith River Valley of central Montana. His grandfather homesteaded there in 1881. Today his two sons and son-in-law help him and his wife Marie raise his cattle, 2,800 head of Angus and Hereford. But such is the state of ranching economics today that family operations like Riverside are dying. "You have to says in a lot extra of everything these days to make a profit," says Hanson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch... | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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