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...Kings Canyon national parks. It is an experience in mountaineering as well as skiing. The route rises 6,000 ft., almost straight up from the roadhead, to peaks of 13,000 ft. and more. One requirement: a small radio transmitter for avalanche protection. Other arcana may include polypropylene underwear, vapor-barrier booties and avalanche-probe ski poles. The reward of the trek is skier's cocaine: unmarred 1,500-ft. alpine slopes. Experts claim the trail is the equal of Europe's Haute Route from Chamonix, France, to Zermatt, Switzerland...
...that fills the lower two-thirds of Untitled #50, 1981, or horizon and the vestige of a grass strip in its ruled bars of white and green. The same handwriting pervades them, a sunken geometry of lines scumbled over and hazed with paint, as though bathed in light and vapor. There is a kind of light on Diebenkorn's stretch of coastline-mild, high and ineffably clear, descending like a benediction on the tickytack slopes just before the fleeting sunset drops over Malibu-which is all but unique in North America, and Diebenkorn's paintings always appear...
...bullet-at ten times the speed of sound-and dropping like a rock, 20 times faster than a similar-size DC-9 jet on landing. Finally, it came out of the blue, a tiny, glistening white speck that wrote a special signature in the sky-intermittent puffs of vapor created by the purging of excess fuel...
Among the firm's preliminary recommendations was the installation of eight mercury-vapor lamps in the Quad, including two in front of Hilles library, where a student was raped last year. Saltonstall quickly approved the recommendation "for security reasons," and the lights are slated to be operating by mid-October. They will cost approximately...
...including better security in the Mather House area, an all-night escort service, and "victim advocacy" in rape cases. "It's not perfect and it never will be perfect," says Elisabeth A. Einaudi '83, former president of the organization. "But I think things are getting better."Eight new mercury-vapor lamps, slated to be installed at the Radcliffe Quad by mid-October, are part of the increasing effort to beef up security on campus...