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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...
...FERLICKA, D.V.M. Hamilton, Mont...
...which any passenger who cannot be accommodated on the first flight to his destination is guaranteed a seat on the next one. Even bus companies wince as Frontier boasts that "a bus ticket and $5" will buy a jet ride from Denver to St. Louis or Tucson or Billings, Mont...
...were stops for fueling in Gander, a haircut in Reykjavik, and golf in Prestwick. Then, vacationing in Europe, Hughes escaped rain in Switzerland by flying to Spain. On that flight, his passenger was his 72-year-old mother. "Watch out for that mountain," she remarked as they went past Mont Blanc a good 30 miles away...
Last week, as the Tour set out from Marseille for the climb up 6,273-ft. Mont Ventoux, Tom Simpson, 29, who in 1965 became the first Briton to win bike racing's world championship, was in the lead pack. Nearing the summit, Simpson began to zigzag, crashed into a rock pile and collapsed. Doctors rushed him to a hospital in a helicopter-but Simpson was dead. In his jersey pocket, police found two partly empty pharmaceutical vials-one labeled with the trade name for a brand of British "bennies"-and Tour promoters found themselves with the makings...