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Northwest Airlines Flight 305 began as the most prosaic of milk runs. It started in Washington, D.C., at 8:30 a.m. last Wednesday, with scheduled stops at Minneapolis, Great Falls and Missoula, Mont., Portland, Spokane and finally Seattle. What happened en route rivaled Alfred Hitchcock's more baroque fantasies. In the most elaborate skyjacking ploy in the bizarre history of air piracy, an inconspicuous middle-aged traveler identified on the manifest as "D.B. Cooper" extorted $200,000 from the airline, and apparently foiled any plan of capture by parachuting to safety over southwest Washington State...
...sumptuous Belie Epoque villa at Cannes, La Californie (which he quit in pique when a real estate developer put apartment blocks on the land below the garden, ruining the view); and the enormous castle of Vauvenargues on the north flank of the hill that Cézanne often painted, Mont St.-Victoire. But Mougins has become his cloister. "He doesn't travel any more. He hardly even goes into Cannes
MICHAEL ORR Great Falls, Mont...
Patterns in pictures fascinated her, and her brooding shot of the partly finished crenelated dam at Fort Peck, Mont., graced the very first cover of LIFE in 1936. In a 40-year career with Time Inc. that started when she was hired as FORTUNE'S first photographer in 1929, Margaret Bourke-White pursued patterns everywhere, from sweat droplets on a South African miner's face more than a mile underground to the look of New York from a precarious perch atop a gargoyle on the Chrysler Building, 800 ft. above the street. By the time she died last...
...several construction companies. Many corporations have overextended themselves. Bankers have begun to dry up financial pipelines that were once easily accessible to entrepreneurs. The Alaskan unemployment rate is 13.8%. The state has put up booths at the border and at airports in Seattle, Blaine and Sumas, Wash., and Sunburst, Mont., where representatives warn would-be immigrants not to go north in search of work and riches...