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...Keep Mount McKinley...
...Americana [Nov. 7] note about the proposal to change the name of Mount McKinley to Denali, an Indian word for "the Great One", omits points in favor of retaining the presidential name...
Responses to a questionnaire sent out by Alaska's Senator Ted Stevens showed that 73% of Alaskans want to keep the name Mount McKinley, while only 23% favor the change. Alaska now has a Denali Pass, Denali Camp, Denali State Park and Denali Highway. This makes that name rather commonplace, compared to that of the martyred President who, history records, was a leader in labor-law reform and in making the U.S. a dynamic world force-among other achievements...
Kowal's latest finding was based on photographs taken in mid-October through the Hale Observatories' 122-cm. (48-in.) Schmidt telescope atop California's Mount Palomar. A microscopic examination of photographic plates exposed on successive nights revealed a short, faint trail of light between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus; the object that made it appeared to be moving in relation to the stars that formed the background. Kowal promptly called Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., for help in verifying his discovery. Marsden, who serves as a clearinghouse...
...this valley, according to the Koran, Adam first met Eve after their separate descent from Eden. In the midst of this valley is the Mount of Mercy, where Mohammed delivered a sermon to his companions during their return from the "farewell-pilgrimage." There he transmitted to them the final revelation of the Koran that had been delivered to him thoughout a period of 23 years: "This day I [God] perfected your religion for you, and completed My favor unto you, and decreed Islam as your faith." The message of Islam was delivered totally; less than a year later Mohammed died...