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August 4, 1980

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a reporter at large

RIDING THE BOOM EXTENSION

John McPhee

REPORTER AT LARGE about telephones in Circle City, Alaska, population 80. Richard Hutchinson brought telephones to Circle City in 1977. He has been in …