Word: mud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late afternoon the sky sours--all grey tension and flat light. Pulling into Tower Junction, we look for 6-10, a Park Ranger who went to school with Fred. The Park Service people live in a ratty cove of mobile homes parked on a patch of mud and gravel. Out of a faded beige unit, Briggs, Fred's exroommate and my future roommate in Ketchum, steps. He's broken up with his girlfriend so he hitched up from Ketchum--about seven hours away--to do some fishing. The streams are high and muddy, and the trout few, 6-10 gets...
Grayhaired Doxiadis was dapper, shrewd and brisk-a silver fox of a man who was equally at home designing mud-brick houses for Zambian peasants or diagramming his thoughts (with multicolored felt-tip pens) for Western intellectuals. He was born in 1913 of Greek parents in Bulgaria, was bred and educated in Athens, and earned a graduate degree in Berlin. His talent shone early: at 23 he became Athens' top town planner; at 25 he was chief of regional planning for all Greece. Then came World War II (Doxiadis was a Resistance hero) and after...
...they sit in eerie silence in the dirt courtyards and dusty streets hoping to find food and waiting for rain. In the village of Desforges, five miles to the north, children, too debilitated to brush away the flies and insects that swarm over their bodies, sit for hours outside mud and stick huts without moving or speaking. Until recently, many have eaten nothing but mangoes; their arms and legs are covered with running sores that never heal. Monique is a six-year-old boy shorter than a properly developed child half his age. His mother says, Tm afraid that...
...around Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington, they warned that it could erupt again before the end of the century. Even if no such outburst occurs at Mount Baker, say the scientists, the mountain's heat could melt enough snow and ice on its slopes to cause dangerous mud slides and floods...
...California, husky bulldozer operators, stubble-bearded, pinch-eyed welders from Chicago and Bartlesville, Okla., geologists from "back East," college students out for adventure, and a smattering of whores, highrollers and assorted hangers-on from all over. They come by jets screaming in from Houston and New Orleans, or in mud-covered Winnebago trailers swaying up the Alaska Highway. They come in ancient station wagons, the kids frisking in back, the husband hunched over the wheel and the exhausted wife dozing fitfully in the front seat. They are the latest breed to head for Alaska with the burning desire to strike...