Word: valleys
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Filmed in color in the Kananaskis Valley, a spectacular slash in the Canadian Rockies, the picture describes the early life and hard times of a pup of the Malemute breed (seven parts Husky, one part wolf). As the story starts, the pup lies playfully tussling with a black bear cub in the bottom of a canoe. All at once the canoe capsizes, and the two wobbly whippersnappers are flung into the river, washed over a waterfall. When at last they struggle ashore, pup and cub are alone in the great north woods, far from human help but entirely too close...
...over the Gila River Valley, and the big Boeing 707 jetliner was just 16 minutes out of El Paso on a routine Continental Airlines run from Los Angeles to Houston. In the darkened cabin, most of the passengers dozed in their seats. "I was about half asleep," recalls Air Force Recruit Robert Byington, "when I saw one of the stewardesses being pushed up the aisle by a young guy about 17." Byington did not see the revolver pressed against the girl. "She didn't look like she was scared, and I thought this fellow was just fooling around...
...teat: neither useful nor ornamental.") But his eyes brightened when he came to the figures on freight. Inked across one page in bold, red numerals was the figure 444. It meant that Russell's railroad had delivered 444 consecutive trainloads of perishable produce from California's Central Valley to the S.P. terminal at Ogden, Utah-from where the cars move north, south and east across the nation-without running so much as five minutes behind schedule...
...sound track. Chuck wagon, gunfire, sounding of taps-it is minor ingeniousness at the expense of genius. In the end, the Civil War trick seems merely a capitalization on the war's 100th anniversary fever, and in 1976 Troilus will probably be done again at Stratford set at Valley Forge...
Last week a white farmer in Kenya's great Rift Valley found the body of a lost calf he had been searching for. Its front legs had been cut off and placed in its mouth; its belly had been ripped and its entrails festooned about its neck and head...