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California's rugged, sequoia-covered mountain-sides are not, however, entirely characteristic of Western skiing. The treeless walls of the Sugar Bowl near Norden, Nevada, have stamped a far brighter mark on U.S. skiing annals than even the fabled San Gorgonio region, predicted by many ski experts to be among the most fruitful prospects for American sportsmen...
When an economy-minded Congress lopped off a ponderous $83 million from the Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation, the resulting crash echoed throughout the West like the crash of a felled Sequoia. Four Republican, four Democratic governors of California, Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Washington rushed to Seattle's Olympic Hotel to take counsel. Arizona and Nevada sent representatives...
...body was found by a forest ranger on Monday. While camping in Sequoia National Park last Saturday with his brother and a friend, Tuttle and the friend decided to climb separate peaks. Tuttle failed to return...
...Sequoia, the Secretary...
...early New Deal days Franklin Roosevelt cruised about on Vincent Aster's palatial Nourmahal. Then he acquired the Sequoia, switched to the Potomac in 1936 after the Navy condemned the Sequoia as a firetrap. The topheavy Potomac made many a weekend trip on which FDR regaled his guests with drink and stories. But she rolled like a barrel-which never bothered FDR but sent many a guest to the rail...