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Near Lake Arrowhead, about ten per cent of the Ponderosa pines, about 1,300,000 trees, have died from the L.A. smog. Ponderosa pines reign over the Western forests. They're often two hundred feet all, with ten-inch-long needles. They are the oldest trees with the longest roots. In a sense, they hold the forest together. After a forest fire, grass begins to grow, which is soon replaced by bushes, like mountain mahogany and thimbleberry. Fast growing poplar trees shade out the bushes, like quaking aspens. After about a hundred years, the coniferous forest again dominates the area...
Last year Los Angeles-based Arrowhead & Puritas Waters Inc., the industry's front runner, increased both its sales ($15,650,000) and profits ($1,342,596) by 15%. In doing so, the 74-year-old company sold 43,325,000 gallons, partly from springs in the San Bernardino Mountains, partly from five distillation plants and partly from de-ionizing plants, which yield the mineral-free water favored by commercial customers. Runner-up Sparkletts Drinking Water Corp., a subsidiary of Foremost-McKesson, boosted its revenues from $12 million to an estimated $13 million...
...upon many finds. My brother had quite a creditable collection of Minie balls, spent shells, uniform buttons, and other bits and pieces of unidentifiable metal left behind by Yankee soldiers during the Battle of Atlanta. However, the prize of his collection was a relic of an earlier war-an arrowhead crudely fashioned from a piece of quartz crystal. Somehow, our way sounds like more...
This summer, in such diverse settings as a Universalist church on Cape Cod, a 16th century hacienda near Taxco, Mexico, and a leafy glade on the shores of California's Lake Arrowhead, hundreds of amateur U.S. musicians are taking part in a series of workshops. Their subject: advanced noodling. Their instrument: the recorder, a kind of glorified penny whistle with a pedigree...
...Arrowhead Approach. Under a full moon one evening, three or more exile gunboats-each painted a glossy white, showing red and green running lights and flying the Cuban flag-approached Havana in arrowhead formation. By midnight, the exiles had reached the city without so much as a challenge, broke out 20-mm. cannon and .50-cal. machine guns, and raised havoc along the waterfront for half an hour...