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...land near the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, the Kitty Hawk was pushed by strong gusts toward high-power lines. The Royal Canadian Mounties, aboard a helicopter, came to the rescue. Using the backwash from the rotors, the chopper pilot pushed the balloon toward a clearing in Ste. Félicité, Quebec, where the gondola finally dropped to the ground, 99 hrs. and 54 min. after leaving San Francisco Bay. For once Maxie's mind was not on the next challenge, which he had previously suggested might be a balloon flight around the world. Said...
Keith A. Vandenbergh Sault Ste. Marie, Mich...
...toll-free Government locks at Sault Ste. Marie are another disguised subsidy to the steel industry. There should be a toll at the Soo Locks similar to that imposed upon cargo passing through the Panama Canal...
...most of that time-until seven years ago, in fact-the ice blocked even the biggest ore boats from January to April. The 35-year-old Mac will push 30 miles out into Whitefish and then back down through St. Marys River and the locks of Sault Ste. Marie, clearing the way for downbound ore carriers and for empty ships upbound from the steel mills at Gary, Ind. Each winter the 290-ft. Mac makes "track" not only through the solid heavy ice but through once broken ice refrozen in crazy-quilt patches the Coast Guardsmen call "brash." Moving through...
...Steel feels passionate on the subject, not merely because it accounts for 20 million of the 80 million tons of shipping a year that passes through Sault Ste. Marie but because it insures its own fleet and can set the rates. Other shippers are far less committed to winter navigation because basic ship insurance rates rise prohibitively in the dead of winter...