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...Manhattan banker, the stocky Trippe left Yale to become a naval aviator during World War I. In 1921 he became the manager of tiny Long Island Airways. Three years later he put together Colonial Air Transport with help from friends, including Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and William H. Vanderbilt. That airline won the first Post Office contract to deliver U.S. air mail on a route between New York City and Boston...
...hundreds of trails, most of which are accessible to anyone with spunk and a good pair of boots. Among the most popular are the High Sierra trail, which runs east-west across the crest, and the John Muir trail, which follows a north-south line from Yosemite to Mt. Whitney. For those who want a less rigorous adventure, the National Park Service operates a string of five High Sierra camps, each a few hours' hike apart. The camps offer hot food, showers and beds, but reservations should be made early. There are also a number of beautiful day hikes leaving...
...miles away over the Tioga or Paiute passes. Toward the valley, pack trains and jeeps carry food and linen to the "High Sierra Camps" operated by the Yosemite Valley concessioniers. To the east, boyscouts and campfire girls pound dusty, mile-wide paths to the toilet-equipped camps beneath Mt. Whitney. But in the interior, the quiet is enveloping. A hiker of the trail may see no one for days, and those who visit the glacier lakes speak in whispers...
Last night in Yale's Payne-Whitney gymnasium, though, things got a bit sticky toward the end, and the Crimson had to wait till overtime to dump the Elis...
...some of the best things on display ti these shows do not fall into any of the usual categories of the '70s. In particular, and perhaps best of all, there are the two rooms by Judy Pfaffat the Hirshhorn and the Whitney. If there is any central metaphor to Pfaffs maniacally strident and wonderfully energetic work, it is immersion. Colonies of shapes-spiky, blobby, twisting, knotted, tangled-sprout upward from the floor or hang in clusters from the ceiling. They proliferate like brain coral, elkhorn, lacy underwater fans; the wall beyond them dissolves into patches and drifts of submarine...