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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yates did not set out to break the law. Instead, he wanted to climb a mountain. He took calculated risks that could have resulted in death. In the course of his climb he broke Baxter State Park regulations. He doesn't want to encourage anyone else to do the same--either break the law or climb the mountain: he doesn't want his climb to serve as any kind of example. Instead, he emphasizes that what he did raises certain important questions about "civil liberties and the pursuit of happiness...
...summer, a solo hike to the summit, though permitted, is impossible because of the number of other people. Crowds thin out significantly during winter, when severe weather locks the mountain in ice and snow, but solo-hiking is illegal. Baxter State Park winter regulations ban parties of fewer than four people from camping or climbing anywhere above the treeline. However, despite the rules, groups of one, two or three campers often attempt the climb. Last winter, rangers apprehended a pair of climbers; two weekends ago they caught Eugene B. (Gus) Yates...
...those years that Byrne appealed in her seemingly quixotic campaign run by her husband, a former newspaperman, and a Hyde Park liberal organizer named Don Rose, now considered a traitor by the all-but-dead lakefront independent movement. Byrne was Daley's loyal hand-maiden--willing to sing his praises more loudly and obsequiously than even the most seasoned of ward-heelers. It was she who helped direct the late Mayor's infamous infiltration of dissident groups. When Daley was alive, she was a terror; her acid-tongued remarks stung any who didn't toe the party line. When Daley...
...life. Simon has created a painfully effective portrait of human behavior at its most paradoxical: the man fears feeling happy, the woman's compassion threatens to kill her husband's affection. Chapter Two is a long way from the cute quarrels of the newlyweds in Barefoot in the Park. Simon's first success, based on the early days of his first marriage...
Limited access to the warehouse also hindered the firemen, Griffin said. The industrial park lies beyond a group of dead-end streets, preventing fire units from approaching. In addition, because the fire began on the second floor, firemen could not enter the building on the ground floor since the ceiling might collapse...