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Overtaken. Shortly after noon, the first wreckage was sighted. On the impenetrable, rock-jagged slope between Chuar (pronounced shwar) Butte and Temple Butte, just inside the eastern edge of the majestic Grand Canyon, lay the shattered pieces of the Constellation, identifiable by her tail surfaces. Around 7 o'clock the next morning, searchers found the remains of the United 718 on a ledge at the top of Chuar Butte, 1,000 ft. from the Connie...
...Hall children had a robust country upbringing. In the winters there was coasting on the slope of the big hill where their house stood, and skating on the pond at the bottom. On summer days the family often picnicked on the beach, where father Hall had built a brick oven for feasts of winkles and horseshoe crabs. There were few luxuries, and the Hall boys chored around the neighborhood for spending money, but it was a happy, close-knit life. His mother taught Len how to handle a gun (he is still a skilled trap-shooter), and tutored...
Stigum flashed down the slightly icy slope in 1:12.4, just ahead of Tom Burns of Middlebury. The Panthers came in second in the meet, 3.5 points behind Dartmouth. Williams was third, 8.3 points ahead of the Varsity...
Franconia (Cannon)--Fair to good upper, good lower, slope excellent...
Manchester Snow Valley is excellent; Middlebury and Stowe's Mansfield and Spruce Peak are judged good to excellent; and Manchester's Big Bromley is good. At Franconia, Mittersill is excellent and the slope of Cannon Mountain is good to excellent. North Conway's Cranmore reports fair to good conditions...