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...Katmandu early last month, flew to the hill town of Pokhara, then hiked toward Dhaulagiri. By mid-April, they had established their first camp, at 12,400 ft., and were pressing on toward their next camp. Then came the first mishap: Deputy Leader William A. Read, of Moose, Wyo., was suddenly blinded in the right eye by pulmonary edema, which sometimes strikes men who go too high too fast. Read left to await evacuation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal: Death on Dhaulagiri | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...Ohio, Wisc., N.D., S.D., lowa, Neb., Kan., Mo., Okla., Wyo., Colo., N.Mex., Ariz., Nev., Utah, Idaho, Wash., Oreg., Calif., Ky., Alas., Ha., and Mont. should stay with Nixon...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: A Scheme | 10/30/1968 | See Source »

Agnew began the campaign by calling Hubert Humphrey "squishy soft" on Communism, a charge he hastily retracted. Two weeks ago, he denounced a charge of "collusion" with George Wallace, only to discover that the charge had been made against the Democrats by Dick Nixon. In Casper, Wyo., Agnew put a Stetson on backward and talked about wheat prices to sheep and cattle ranchers. On KULR-TV in Billings, Mont., he hinted that the Republicans had a solution to the war, forcing Nixon into a weary "what-Mr.-Agnew-meant-to-say" denial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Campaign: The Sleeper v. the Stumbler | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

Sheridan, Wyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 26, 1968 | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...marshals grim details to demonstrate that no man would take to the road for any reason but dire necessity. In the heyday of rail travel, there were homicidal "cinder dicks" like trigger-twitchy Jeff Carr, who operated out of Cheyenne, Wyo., and got his kicks by galloping along a slow-moving freight taking pot shots at hoboes with his six-gun. Those who survived ran into a different danger in trackside camps. Homosexuality was rampant, and Allsop insists that The Big Rock Candy Mountain, the hobo's anthem, is really "a homosexual tramp serenade," one of "the 'ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road Tramp Blues | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

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