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Yosemite National Park heads the list of most frequented California ski re-Dome stems the five-mile Bishop Creek run, five shorter trails, and an excellent slope downhill run descending 700 feet in little over a half mile. Badger Pass sports a ski life and three rope tows...
...with his rifle butt and escaped. Their escapes were even narrower than they knew. They built their blockhouse at Fort Mandan, some 1,100 miles up the Missouri, just before the Sioux held a war council. After they crossed the Rockies and were resting, exhausted, before descending the Pacific slope, the Nez Perce Indians decided to wipe them out. The Nez Perces were dissuaded (according to tribal tradition) by a squaw who had once been befriended by some white trappers...
...Friendship Train (TIME, Nov. 17) rolled on last week, its chain of boxcars lengthening like a giant beanstalk. It rumbled down the eastern slope of the Great Divide and over Midwestern plains. At city and whistle stop alike, additional cars bulging with food were hitched up. At week's end, the train had 207 cars, and it had still not reached New York, where a huge end-of-the-line contribution for Europe's hungry was already waiting...
...about to begin -an ill-timed arrival for Her Majesty's representative. Mr. Bennett faced down the sullen hillmen, stopping the show, and Kalyanu helped to see him through. Later, Mr. Bennett took Kalyanu along on an exploratory ascent of the high Himalayan range. On a glassy snow slope at 15,000 feet the two men were caught in a cloud. They fell, but broke their fall and were not killed. But Mr. Bennett would never have made it back to camp without Kalyanu...
California Invaders. The marshes around Klamath Falls, on the east slope of the Cascades, are a duck hunter's heaven. The two hunters last week, like other local citizens, want to keep it that way. But the fame of Klamath Falls has spread. Last week, hunters from as far away as Chicago swarmed into town. The natives were particularly scornful of what they call "California hunters,"* who swarm across the border, led by a Hollywood contingent in fancy hunting togs. Among movieland duck hunters: Clark Gable and Andy Devine...