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Dams are needed for hydroelectricity and to create water reservoirs. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. is seeking to build a storage facility on Storm King Mountain overlooking the Hudson 55 miles north of Manhattan; the Army Corps of Engineers has plans to dam Alaska's Yukon River at Rampart Canyon into a lake the size of New Jersey that could water the U.S. West Coast...
Murder Most Foul. "A bunch of the boys were whooping it up . . ." begins Margaret Rutherford, auditioning for a provincial repertory company with a daffy, definitive recitation of Robert Service's Yukon ballad, The Shooting of Dan McGrew. She has no sooner finished than an actor drops dead at her feet. Though the plot has it that the poor chap was done in by poison, it appears more likely that he died of envy, for an act like Rutherford's is hard to follow...
Back at base camp, at 9,000 ft. on the Yukon Territory's Mount Kennedy, the mountaineer peered red-eyed through a three-day growth of beard, stripped to the waist in the - 10° cold, gave himself a rubdown with the contents of a cup of hot water. Then he settled down to a dinner of chicken soup, T-bone steak, instant mashed potatoes with butter, Madeira wine, vanilla ice cream and coffee. Shortly thereafter, New York's Democratic Senator Bobby Kennedy crawled into his sleeping bag for a nine-hour snooze...
That first famous hike was 50 miles, and this one will be only 2.6 miles-but practically straight up. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, 39, is taking off this week for the Yukon, where he will join in the assault on 13,900-ft. Mt. Kennedy, an icy spire named after the late President by the Canadian government and the highest unclimbed mountain in North America. The temperature is likely to be in the neighborhood of 30° below zero, and Bobby's previous mountaineering is confined to the sand dunes at Hyannis Port. But Jim Whittaker, 35, member...
...team was back victorious, and Oregon was incredulous. OF Portland State had won not the Class D basketball crown or the Yukon curling final but television's G.E. College Bowl quiz, breaking all records and mopping up $10,500 in scholarships. With snap-snap-snap aplomb, the team had proved that it knew the word that means both monk and monkey (Capuchin), the doctor who pioneered the use of carbolic acid (Joseph Lister), the play that opens on the setting of the palace of Theseus in Athens (A Midsummer-Night's Dream), and 200 other facts...