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...Mondale in Wisconsin seemed to bear out his intense organizational effort in the state (one aide spent six weeks in a single congressional district). But thus far Cranston has been unable to attract broad popular support. As he took a Fourth of July ride on a ferry across Puget Sound to Winslow, Wash. (pop. 2,420), and paraded amid bagpipers and bellydancers there, he was met by quizzical stares from onlookers wondering who the tanned and gaunt stranger...
...federal indictment by refusing to pay half his income taxes as a protest against the Administration's defense spending. Hunthausen last year called the missile-carrying Trident submarine, based near his city, "the Auschwitz of Puget Sound," but on this occasion his rhetoric was less outrageous. "To many my message seems like foolishness," he said, "but to me, it is simply the Gospel of Jesus Christ...
...these diarists was James Gilchrist Swan, one of the first whites to spend a lifetime on Puget Sound. Jettisoning a young family and comfortable life in Boston, Swan followed the feverish impulse to scrap it all and go west. From 1858 until his death in 1900 he inhabited the Olympic Peninsula, beaching his canoe in Neah Bay or Port Townsend most of the 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...
Doig, like Swan, came west to Puget Sound. Raised on a rough succession of sheep and cattle ranches in Montana's high country and in those stark, one-street towns with a post office, filling-station, store, and three saloons, he felt drawn farther west--to Seattle with its more "workable," "soft-toned" winters, a better environment for a young journalist. After 20 years of magazine writing, Doig published his first book, This House of Sky, in 1978, composing it of memories of his early life in Montana with his father. He was surprised to find himself nominated...
...season. For McCarthy, who's spent most of the fall battling injuries, it was a gratifying way to end the season. For Diaz, whose mother made the trip out from Chicago, it earned her a proud parent and a dinner for the team on the dockside of beautiful Puget Sound...