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...million agreement calls for the delivery by Peabody of a minimum of 117 million tons of coal to the yet-to-be-built Mohave Power Project in Clark County, Nev., 80 miles from Las Vegas. Being built by three Southwestern utility companies headed by Southern California Edison, the $188 million electrical-power plant will have two 750,000-kw. generators on 2,500 acres of Colorado River land. Power from the plant, along with that from a similar project already under construction in western New Mexico, will light up the lamps of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and the proliferating...
...after 17 grueling months as the President's public voice and private confidant, to become publisher of Long Island's prosperous newspaper Newsday (circ. 415,000). Ordained a Baptist teacher, he has been with Johnson ever since he joined his Senate staff in 1959 after graduating from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Moyers won the trust and liking of the hypercritical Washington press corps after he took over from the ailing George Reedy in 1965. Like everyone else, he did not find Lyndon Johnson exactly easy to work for. Lately he has been upset by the widening of Johnson...
...Moon. What is enticing the tourists farther afield is not the search for better weather. All the islands of the southernmost state- enjoy a year-round balmy climate (average mean temperature: 75°). And, because of the prevailing northeast trade winds, the southwestern coasts of all of its islands (and not just Oahu) are nearly rain-free all year round...
Cavorting Whales. On Maui, known as "The Valley Isle," mangoes, papaya and passion fruit on the roadside wait to be plucked by the passing traveler. The newest and best resort hotels are going up along a peerless, three-mile stretch of white beach on the southwestern side of the Kaanapali area, where the low-slung Royal Lahaina, the Royal Kaanapali and the towering Sheraton-Maui, built on a lava rock outcropping, together share a $1,800,000 golf course, designed by Robert Trent Jones and blasted out of the slopes of Mount Puu Kukui. A $6,000,000 Hale Kaanapali...
...original elegant scheme. Fan-shaped legislative halls open onto a 60-ft.-high rotunda. Doors to dangerous service areas have abrasive-covered handles to warn the blind, and the Governor has a telephoto peephole to survey his anteroom. As for visitors who may want to know what an authentic Southwestern government house would look like, Santa Feans can still proudly point to the nearby 1610 Palace of the Governors, the oldest capitol in the U.S., a one-story Spanish colonial adobe structure that is the cornerstone of New Mexican style...