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...quiet rain falling to the appropriate surface-the color lost in the blue sky, lost onto the vision we see them, the clouds now whiter and still moving the sun now higher the light, now above the mountains, has moved from eclipse to sharper distinction, less peaceful stasis pinon-you smell it as everything around you clouds and light moving across the mesa the highway lost as a thirsting arroyo, brief and fearful potential, one can run across any land easiest in the arroyos-the length greater, but the water does it because it is the only...
Candy from the Sky. From Flagstaff, Ariz., eastward to Fruitland, N. Mex., and from the pinon groves of Utah southward to the stands of saguaro cactus near the Mexican border, the six-state area last week dug out of disaster. The roar of plow and plane engines resounded as Southwesterners raced to clear the roads and rescue the stranded before fresh blizzards came sweeping down, as U.S. weathermen had predicted. The known dead totaled 15, most of them on the Navajo Reservation, which covers an area nearly as large as Ireland. Arizona state officials feared that more may have frozen...
Some Southwesterners, in the harsh, half-forgotten tradition of the Old West, refused to be awed by the natural disaster. Speaking of the eight deaths on the Navajo Reservation, Presbyterian Missionary Harold Borhauer, 45, said: "I bury more than that at the opening of the pinon season"-the autumn harvest of protein-rich pinon nuts, during which Indians have been known to die of respiratory ailments contracted in the chilly mountains. Adee Dodge, a Navajo painter, added a peculiarly Indian note of resignation: "We publicly thank all the dear gods of this world for having caused such a windfall...
...owned by Oklahoma Democratic Senator Robert S. Kerr's Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc.) is digging four mines and for $16 million is putting up a 3,300-ton-a-day mill, which will be the biggest in the U.S. Homestake Mining Co. has joined with Sabre-Pinon Corp. to build a 1,500-ton mill, which will go into operation by mid-1958. This December, Homestake also will finish a 750-ton mill, under construction in partnership with J. H. Whitney and Co., White, Weld & Co., San Jacinto Petroleum Corp. and Major General Patrick J. Hurley...
...front leg, Happy Issue ran the way Frenchy liked-fast from behind. Her breeding was none too fashionable: Bow To Me, her sire, had already been shunted off to Cuba as a has-been. But her paternal grandsire was the great French racer Epinard (spinach), for whom French-born Pinon had high regard. He took the plunge, led away Happy Issue from a claiming race...