Word: utah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...driving. Nabokov, with the security of a man who is good at nearly everything, easily concedes he cannot handle a car, adding generously, "There are some people who can refold maps, too, but I am not one of them." Every summer they coursed up and down Arizona, Utah, Wyoming and Oregon in search for the feeding grounds of Nabokov's beloved "blues." Between butterflies, Vladimir sat beside Vera jotting on 3 by 5 cards. His notes were about a man named Humbert Humbert. General Motors, so far as anyone knows, has paid scant heed to the historic fact that much...
...thought the trip would be worthwhile, so they hitchhiked to Chicago, then drove to Utah. Imrie turned in an excellent performance, wrestling at heavyweight instead of at 191, to finish eighth in the tournament...
...causeway that cut directly across it. The historic trackage was hauled off and melted down to help meet World War II metal shortages. Even the causeway line is now used by only one passenger train, the City of San Francisco, and the railroad wants to suspend service between Ogden, Utah, and Oakland, Calif...
Undeterred, an estimated 15,000 history buffs and railroad fans showed up in Promontory last weekend for a centennial re-enactment of the last-spike ceremony; 81 of them paid $995 apiece for a round-trip ride from New York to Utah on a special train hauled by steam locomotive as far as Kansas City, where a mammoth Union Pacific diesel took over for the long pull across the Rocky Mountains. U.P. President Ed Bailey arrived in a private car hitched to a passenger train, but some of his vice presidents chose a faster way. They arrived from Omaha...
...body. If a corpse were not carefully guarded, it could wind up in the hands of the souvenir hunters, who had a nasty habit of flaying celebrities and preserving them for posterity. For example, Big Nose George Curry, who was done to death by a posse at Castle Gate, Utah, survived his execution in the form of a man-hide wallet...