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...final step in a slow metamorphosis, made clear by Upstate, is Wilson's more or less contented rejection of the great world for a small village-the New York hamlet of Talcottville (pop. 100), north of Utica. His ancestors lived there, he summered there as a boy, and he now owns a handsome old stone house there...
Since Nov. 12, ALPA has been on strike against Mohawk Airlines of Utica, N.Y., grounding the line's short-haul flights to 38 mainly Northern and Eastern airports. Money is only one of the issues. Mohawk has offered to pay its captains-who now average $2,625 per month-a monthly wage of $2,985 by 1972. The union wants an average $3,100 per month immediately, to bring the pay of Mohawk pilots up to the scale paid by larger trunk lines. Beyond that, ALPA insists that Mohawk meet no fewer than 80 demands-from shorter hours...
...touched down, Swissair Captain Fritz Schreiber hit the brakes and applied full reverse thrust on the four engines, raising a cloud of desert dust and sand, which was sucked into the ventilation system. "The cabin was filling up with cloudy stuff that smelted like smoke," recalled Cecily Simmon of Utica, N.Y. "You could hardly breathe." Many passengers leaped through emergency doors before it became evident that there was no fire. When the dust settled, the Swissair passengers saw the reason for the fast stop. The DC-8 had come to rest not more than 50 yards from Gaza...
Burchfield's perseverance paid off in some of the most unusual nature painting in American art. In memory of the artist, who died in 1967, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, N.Y., is currently displaying a 441-work retrospective. Organized by Assistant to the Director Joseph Trovato, the show ranges from schoolboy sketches to some of his last large watercolors, handsomely illuminating Burchfield's special gifts. Sweeping views and majestic scenery were not his forte. Rather, he marveled at nature's moods, the songs of crickets and cicadas, the sound of the wind in the telegraph...
...Utica Jail: Completely automated, but the equipment was not then fully understood by the guards...