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...among the world's largest and finest, and its aloof sales staff was made up of technical experts in A. & F.'s wares. A. & F.'s Manhattan store on Madison Avenue was a showcase of such exotic items as $300 miniature antique cannons, $1,188 Yukon dog sleds, and portable stone furnaces for heating cabins on yachts. It even sold lightweight chain-mail suits to protect explorers against arrows from Indian bows in South America...
...problem was sloppy welding and shoddy inspection-and apparently attempts to cover them up-in a 144-mile stretch of the pipeline between the Yukon River and a point south of Fairbanks. Ketchbaw Industries, a Houston firm, had a subcontract to perform X-ray tests of the welding; those tests had been required to reduce chances of a serious oil spill. Last year a Ketchbaw employee charged that there had been falsification of some tests. The pipeline consortium investigated the charges, decided that they had substance, and brought a suit against Ketchbaw. Ketchbaw denies falsification and has filed a countersuit...
...Rossini's William Tell Overture, theme music for The Lone Ranger. Or with Rimski-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, accompanying another episode of The Green Hornet. Once more The Shadow purrs, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" Sergeant Preston of the Yukon hustles his huskies, Our Gal Sunday strives to find happiness with a wealthy, titled Englishman, and 15-year-old Speed Gibson of the International Police doggedly pursues his archfoe, The Octopus...
Untamed Play. Millions of other fans from the Yukon to Newfoundland will slow down their own parties long enough to watch the game on TV. They may be joined by American viewers who stumble on the Grey Cup while switching channels to catch American Thanksgiving weekend games...
Joanne Schrioch is an antimeter maid in Whitehorse (pop. 11,084), territorial capital of the Canadian Yukon...