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...library, designed by Cambridge architects Hugh Stubbins and Associates, was designed to have minimum architectural impact on the Yard. It is in the open field which had served as passageway between the Widener-Memorial Church quadrangle and the Union, and will appear to terrestials as a nine-foot high plateau, its roof covered by grass, shrubs, and a walkway...
...grassy surrounding mound will block it from view, and underground passages will link it with other parts of the library complex. The $8 million structure will have three levels, most of which will be underground. A small courtyard will break the plateau near one corner...
...guys are the last guys of the war!" exclaimed an excited voice from the squawk box in a truck parked at the edge of the runway. Within 30 seconds, the two A-7D Corsair fighter-bombers were touching down at this air-base set on a bucolic plateau of waving green grass some 140 miles northeast of Bangkok and 290 miles from Phnom-Penh. Skipping onto the concrete strip amid puffs of blue smoke, the planes taxied over to ground personnel for a routine "disarming" check. Then they roared to a halt at their stations on the flightline. Precisely...
This ditty is recited by the children of Cook. They are up at dawn to watch the train refuel before it heads across the 500-mile plain of Nullarbor (Latin for "not any tree"). The desolate limestone plateau is covered with sea fossils, saltbush, and red-flowering wild hops. Weird subterranean winds whistle through caves honeycombing the limestone, and whoosh with an eerie trumpeting from gaping blowholes. Over one stretch known as "the long straight," the track runs dead ahead for 297 miles, the longest straightway railroad in the world. There was a "loco" driver at Cook named Kevin Smith...
...Vanguard's wing hit a tree, and the plane spun into a wooded plateau under full power, cutting a swath through the firs as the front part of the fuselage disintegrated in a shower of metal fragments and human bodies. Of the 144 aboard, only 39 survived...