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Jenkins said yesterday he plans to return to Arizona to continue excavation on the site, located about 75 miles Northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona...
...Flagstaff, Ariz...
Readers inclined toward traveling heroes may recall the passage in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop where Correspondent William Boot outfits himself for assignment in barbarous Ishmaelia: his kit included a "rather overfurnished tent, three months' rations, a collapsible canoe, a jointed flagstaff and Union Jack, a hand pump and sterilizing plant, an astrolabe, six suits of tropical linen and a sou'wester, a camp operating table and set of surgical instruments, a portable humidor, guaranteed to preserve cigars in condition in the Red Sea, and a Christmas hamper complete with Santa Claus costume and a tripod mistletoe stand...
...week's end the plan was to cart off the tritium to the Navajo Army depot, a federal munitions dump near Flagstaff, Ariz. There it could be processed for sale, fed at a safe rate into the atmosphere or dumped at a nuclear waste site. But when a Flagstaff judge issued a restraining order against the transport, its destination became dubious...
...border, Fort Defiance (Actual Fort Defiance Souveniers Here! Spend Money!), and then, turning south, the Painted Desert, the Petrified Forest, and Winslow, Arizona loomed up. Eagles or no Eagles, no girl in a flatbed Ford drove up to the corner where I was standing, so I continued on the Flagstaff, and by nightfall to within five miles of the Grand Canyon...