Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picture-window view of a passing submarine, a rising mountain, a rippling lake or inlet-these, and more, are the fringe benefits enjoyed by many who reside around Puget Sound. Three examples of varied lifestyles...
...Modern Mountain Man. "On clear days, Mount Rainier seems to rise in our front yard," boasts Phyllis Shreve, who lives with her husband Jerry and son Terry in a white frame house in the bucolic town of Kent, 16 miles south of Seattle. Jerry Shreve, 40, a native Kansan, came to Seattle at 18 to work for Boeing, where he is now a quality-control inspector. Off the job, his passions are growing roses, fishing (he ties his own flies), hunting elk and deer with a 52-lb. longbow or old-fashioned muzzle-loader...
Shreve is something of a modern mountain man, self-reliant and happiest tramping through the wilderness-"doing an honest day's scouting." As a director of a group of the state's local sports clubs, he works to promote environmental legislation. He marvels, "When you look at a virgin forest after it rains, water runs through the streams clear as gin." Adds Shreve: "I hope and pray my son can enjoy the outdoors the way I have and live as a free person. This may be one of the last places he might do that...
ALASKA. COLD, sparkling rivers, fast-flowing beneath a deep and cloudless sky. Where moose and caribou abound and where the awesome grizzly can change that with one swipe of his five-inch claws. Land of the soaring, snow-capped mountain, Denali ("The High One" "The Mighty One") which a young Princeton graduate renamed in 1896 when, upon his return from an Alaskan prospecting adventure, he learned that William McKinley had won the Republican nomination for United States President. Alaska. Millions of untrammeled acres of rough, unpolite land, where a man can live in a kind of freedom inconceivable...
...uniforms fit, survival is difficult. Pruitt puts on "a lot of jukes and lateral movement" so that he does not get hit head on. "It's just like two trains colliding-the smaller one is going to take the most punishment." Johnson stares upfield at "an immovable mountain" and pours on the speed to run around it. St. Louis Cardinals Wide Receiver Mel Gray (5 ft. 9 in., 175 Ibs.) dislocated a shoulder trying to take out a bigger man and has since left the blocking to others. "Trying to be a hero, I ran into Dick Butkus...