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...time, trekking about as loiterer, notary public, drunk, author, woodcarver, schoolteacher, friend and student of Makah Indians, explorer, correspondent and collector for the Smithsonian, sketcher, hokumist, unsuccessful lover, misfit entrepreneur, and most of all, perpetual journal-scribbler. Whatever else he was, or wasn't, he unceasingly recorded the early Northwest. Winter Brothers is Seattleite Ivan Doig's memoir of his bloodbrotherhood with this remarkable pioneer via the millions of words he left behind...
...Rancho del Cielo-his ranch in the sky-and it is a continent and an era away from the life he will be leading in Washington, D.C. The 688 acres of rugged land nestle in the Santa Ynez Mountains, 2,200ft. above the Pacific Ocean, about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The Reagans raise a few cattle on the isolated spread they bought six years ago, but they use it mainly, and eagerly, as a retreat. And so jealously do they guard their privacy that few outsiders have seen their hideaway. As he looked forward to his Inaugural...
...after Thanksgiving, three women from the Sierra Club were hiking through the peaceful fir woodlands of beautiful Point Reyes National Seashore, 30 miles northwest of San Francisco. They got separated, and Diana O'Connell, 22, never met her two friends at the end of the trail. A search party found O'Connell and another hiker, Shauna May, 23, in a wooded area, both shot through the head, their nude bodies criss-crossed on the ground. About a mile away from that slaying, two fully clothed but decomposed bodies were also found. Shot in the head, they were lying...
City statutes now require large lot sizes for each dwelling unit, thus preventing many residents of large older homes northwest of Harvard Square from renting rooms to cover increased fuel costs, Community Development Department spokesman Donald Balcom said yesterday...
...nine precincts. They range from the all-black, heavily Democratic, low-income Precinct 10-T, whose voters will cast their ballots at Turner High School near the Perry Homes Public Housing Project, to Precinct 8-E, with polls at the Margaret Mitchell School on Atlanta's affluent northwest side, white, liberal Republican territory...