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...were the undisputed mistresses of the world's greatest commercial waterway. They still evoke memories of a long-departed era that Mark Twain -whose very nom de plume is derived from navigation terminology of the day -described in Life on the Mississippi. Today the great paddle-wheeling river steamboat is a species almost as endangered as the whooping crane-and likewise protected by the Government. The last wooden-decked steamboat, the 50-year-old Delta Queen, plies the 1,500 miles of river from Cincinnati to New Orleans under a special congressional exemption from the federal safety...
With a few breaks, the Crimson stand an excellent chance of knocking off Cincinnati. But without the services of the tree-like Banks, Sander's quintet will have to do what the "Belle of Louisville" does to Cincinnati's "Delta Queen" each Spring in America's only extant steamboat race--cut corners on the bigger boat...
RICHARD D. LAMM, 38, Colorado state legislator who is in the forefront of brash new band of growth critics. Led successful campaign against locating the 1976 Winter Olympics in Vail and Steamboat Springs, on ground that the Games would cost the taxpayers too much, lead to overdevelopment of trailer parks, second homes and industry and attract huge crowds of people - some of whom might settle in Colorado...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH. "Cosmos" and "Meditation" by Jordan Belson and "Man of Aran" by Robert Flaherty. Jan. 11, 7:30 p.m., 31. "Steamboat Bill Jr." by Buster Kenton...
...were growing old would dip into his savings and put up a rope tow on a nearby hill. Today large corporations are cashing in on snow business. Ralston Purina has bought a 62% interest in Keystone, Colo. Subsidiaries of LTV, the conglomerate, own the land, lodges and lifts at Steamboat Springs, Colo. Abroad, some of the world's most famous wealth-that of the Aga Khan, the French Rothschilds, Greek Shipping Magnate Stavros Niarchos-is invested in ski resorts...