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...game. Finally, with his funds running low, he set off for the remote southeastern Utah site that Rasor had marked on the map. The country was so rugged that Pick had to leave his panel truck, walk in the last 25 miles. As he followed Muddy Creek into a stark and jagged canyon, he had to ford the.stream 21 times in six miles. Says Pick: "My feet got wet over and over again, and then they softened and the sand got in and made blisters. At night I would pick the grains of sand out of the blisters with...
...Department is presently planning to irrigate the vast Upper Colorado Basin with two more great dams. In all, another 15 million acres of the waterless West can be economically reclaimed. The rest may forever remain lunar landscape, like Green River's grotesque canyon and Monument Valley's stark buttes (see color pages...
...Cerebral Physiology, electrotelepathecast ing in all directions in space-time." Typical of Horizon's gnawing sense that the times are out of joint is Paul Goodman's Iddings Clark, a surrealistic tale of a mousy English teacher whose personality splinters until finally he enters his classroom "stark naked except for his spectacles and a Whittier in his right hand...
...ominous challenge to the foreign policy and world leadership of the U.S. was not among the articles laid down on paper in the Geneva agreement, but it was a stark reality. By its wavering indecision-unable to stand aloof, unwilling to go all-out in another "little war"-the U.S. had contributed to the defeat. "I will not be a party to any agreement that makes anybody a slave," said President Eisenhower emphatically on June 30. But three weeks later, the U.S. had to stand with the rest of the West, take note of a truce that would make slaves...
...enterprising producer named Paul Coates. Last year Coates, a columnist for the Los Angeles Mirror, decided to create a hard-hitting television program that, he says, would do the things "a newspaperman can do on television. I had written some scripts for Dragnet . . . The greatest attraction there is stark reality in dialogue and faces. I wanted to do a show with real realism. As part of my job on the Mirror, I see the petty hoodlums, prostitutes, homosexuals, unwed mothers, people victimized by racket. Television had not explored this area, and I decided...