Word: utah
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...region. In Montana, a $700 million electric generating complex is being built to convert local coal into power for the Pacific Northwest. In Colorado, a consortium of twelve companies is experimenting with ways to tap the oil and gas held in the state's vast shale deposits. In Utah, the leasing of shale lands has pumped $120 million into the state's coffers. But it is in Wyoming, where the antelope still play beside highways, that the changes are most noticeable...
...Navajo Reservation stretches across 16 million acres of sagebrush desert and red sandstone mesas in three Southwestern states-Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. The land was ceded to the Navajos in 1868, after the Indians had been battered into submission by Colonel Kit Carson. Today the reservation is in effect a separate nation-state, subject to neither state laws nor taxes. It is frontier country, where trading posts and prejudice flourish: the reservation's 140,000 inhabitants are still eyed by many whites as savages. But the Navajos are slowly gaining a degree of prosperity and political power...
Very old grizzlies in Yellowstone National Park last week must have thought that their eyes were deceiving them. There, tramping the trails, was Ranger Jack Ford, 22, the spitting image of his dad Jerry, who spent a summer as a Yellowstone ranger in 1936. Jack, a senior at Utah State University majoring in forestry, looks forward to his summer, particularly since the Vice President is so enthusiastic. "I rode shotgun for a garbage truck. I had a great time holding a gun on the bears as they feasted on garbage," recalls Jerry. "And I never fired a shot...
...both sides of the Atlantic last week, old comrades peered across the decades at the magic, terrible day 30 years before when the Allied armies invaded Normandy. Omar Bradley, one of D-day's last surviving great generals, attended ceremonies on Utah Beach and paid homage "to all who sacrificed where only God could witness their charity to their fellow man." Hugh Polley then a Candain sergeant major, recalled being wounded three times. "Don't ask why I went back to the fight. I don't know myself. I landed in the first wave...
...were his lawyer," says Law Professor John Flynn of the University of Utah, "I don't think I would tell him to resign until he had a clear-cut deal to avoid criminal prosecution." Massachusetts Trial Lawyer Richard K. Donahue, a former aide in the Kennedy White House, counsels that "at this point the President would be in a stronger position to bargain than in a month or two from now. You don't make a deal when the jury is out." But making such a deal may present insuperable problems...