Word: labyrinth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only difficulties the Israelis seem to have encountered were the typical delays caused by Egypt's chronic bureaucratic chaos. After landing at Cairo International Airport, it took hours for Israeli journalists to wind their way through the labyrinth of customs and security procedures. Remarked one Israeli: "My God, I'll never complain about our bureaucracy again...
...busy downtown street, but in his haste to make the arrest he forgets to take the names of any witnesses. A burglar is nabbed just as he is leaving the scene of the crime, but while the case against him seems powerful, his loot somehow gets lost in the labyrinth of police headquarters, and he must be set free. A woman catches a second-story man in her house, engages him in conversation, gives him a drink to get his fingerprints. When he flees she calls the police, who refuse to dust the glass for prints because...
...half-mile track is a series of tight, tough curves-carrousels, S's, hairpins and hard rights and lefts-30 in all, with only 80 meters of straightaway in the whole labyrinth. Though the car can seldom reach 40 m.p.h., to the driver, with eyes only three feet above the asphalt, the sensation, if not the speed, is supersonic. He is competing with the clock. As he crosses the finish line, his time is shown in lighted, 2-ft.-high digital figures. First time around it may be a humiliating 98.46 sec. After a few more heart-in-mouth...
...even a single ray of light can escape the powerful gravitational grasp. But this fact has not deterred imaginative relativity theorists. Refusing to believe that anything can vanish into nothingness, they have argued that when matter drops into a black hole, it may actually be entering a twisting, Einsteinian labyrinth through space and time. According to this hypothesis, before an astronomer can mutter E = mc2, the material pops out in some distant place many light-years away-perhaps in another universe...
...Pentagon is not always the labyrinth of secrets that outsiders imagine. For this week's cover story on defense, Correspondents Bruce Nelan and Jerry Hannifin penetrated the maze and found, according to Hannifin, that the military is "one of the most accessible beats in Washington." "It's no bunker filled with manic Strangeloves planning the next war," says Nelan. "It's really like any other big company, except that its business is national security. People stop to chat in the halls, and the doors of the brass are open...