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...most seasons, the Lolo is passable only from July to mid-September. At the Lolo Pass (elev.: 5,233 ft.), the Forest Service is building a log cabin and a warming hut that will serve as a Lewis and Clark interpretive center when finished later this year...
...JUST ABOUT THE TIME COLUMBUS was sailing into the Caribbean, a young Inca girl, almost a woman, was trudging up the steep slopes of Mount Ampato (elev. 20,700 ft.), in what is now southern Peru, knowing that her life would come to an end at the summit. Her sacrifice, considered the greatest honor her people could bestow, would appease the mountain god--the source of good fortune (in the form of rain to bless the crops) and terror (snowstorms, earthquakes and avalanches) to Inca culture. Did she march bravely to the center of the ceremonial platform...
...phenomenon, there were lingering, legitimate fears in Washington that anti-U.S. riots could occur again, as long as the confrontation with Iran remained at flashpoint. Accordingly, the State Department last week called for the departure of all nonessential personnel and dependents among the 1,200 Americans based in elev en Muslim countries and officially discouraged Americans from traveling to them. A similar order had been issued earlier for Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan...
There was a sign near the highway, "Santa Claus, [elev.] 9 feet, pop. 108," and a post office substation where extra workers were hired to handle up to 10,000 pieces of mail that passed through each day during the Christmas season. Auger's wife took out the last of their savings and bought him a mod sleigh-a small plane with Santa Claus faces painted on its sides-and Auger flew into Santa Monica and Los Angeles with a sack over his shoulder. Local civic clubs would arrange for scores of kids to greet him: "The kids would...
Four-minute Raid. For once, the Ar abs could readily blame Israel for the newest escalation. The day before the Syrian raid, Israeli jets attacked inside Syria's border for the first time since the 1967 war; the planes rocketed and strafed a guerrilla camp, wounding elev en soldiers. After Syria's riposte, Israel, if past patterns held true, could be expected to reply. That, in turn, would set off another cycle of violence...