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Throughout the entire Puget Sound area, stretching 140 miles from Tacoma through Seattle, Everett and Bellingham to the Canadian border, the land where settlers thought they had found a paradise, with sheltered waterways on the front step and mountains in the backyard, is bursting with new indus try. Already, natives are dubbing it Pugetopolis. Said Washington Governor Daniel Evans last week: "In our state's history, the present expansion is second in significance only to that during the gold rush...
...action took place in the placid reaches of Washington state's Puget Sound country, but the passion-to-poison script read more like one of Georges Simenon's Parisian chillers...
...well as a painter), Parks decided to try photography. He hustled to a downtown Seattle hock shop, bought a $12.50 Voigtlander camera, spent half an hour learning how to use the thing, then began shooting everything that crossed his path. So intent was he that he fell into Puget Sound while trying to photograph sea gulls...
...commander of the Flight Test Center at California's Edwards Air Force Base, where he headed the X-15 rocket aircraft program and in 1964 staged the first test flight of the experimental B70 supersonic bomber; when the T-38A supersonic jet trainer he was piloting crashed into Puget Sound during a bad-weather instrument landing at Seattle's Boeing Field...
...Executive Airlines specializes in flying newsmen to the scene of riots and disasters, also frequently carries such luminaries as Bob Hope, Barry Goldwater and Jackie Kennedy. Every weekday a Cessna 172 floatplane from Lake Union Air Service whisks Chip Prentice, 7, between his island summer home on Puget Sound and school in Seattle 15 miles away. Cost to his dad, the owner of two manufacturing firms: $16 a day, round trip. When Winthrop Rockefeller or ex-Labor Tycoon David McDonald travels from Los Angeles to Palm Springs, he makes the trip by air taxi in 30 minutes (v. two hours...