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...Raynesford, Mont. (pop. 62), a cowboy can saunter out of the Mint Bar, ride two miles over rolling, dun-colored country, and watch hard-hatted construction workers pouring concrete around a Minuteman launch silo 89 feet deep. North of Little Rock, Ark., where the Ouachita Mountains slope toward the Mississippi, motorists on U.S. Route 67 can see trailers, cars and cranes clustered around huge wounds that have been gouged in the earth for Titan II missiles. Flying south on Western Airlines Flight 51 near Cheyenne, Wyo., passengers can look down and see the jeweled galaxy of lights around an Atlas...
...Well done, well done.' " The brutality of battle numbed both armies. "A Cameronian lieutenant fell head-first into a weapon pit and two Japanese soldiers five yards away leaned weakly on their rifles and laughed, slowly, while the officer struggled to his feet, slowly, and trudged up the slope. The shells fell slowly and burst with long, slow detonations, and the men collapsed slowly to the ground, blood flowing in gentle gouts into...
North Conway, N.H., Eastern Slope Playhouse: Colette's Gigi...
...familiar among anthropologists, "earliest man." Leakey's earliest man is described as more than 600,000 years old. or some 100,000 years older than the Peking man or Java man. Says Leakey, a broad, rumpled, sometime Cambridge don: "My 19-year-old son Jonathan wandered across a slope during a pause in our other work at Olduvai and picked up a small fragment of animal jaw. 'You've got a saber-toothed tiger.' I said. We'd been expecting to get one. So we started a small dig, and the first thing...
...Clusaz and her family's Alpine farmhouse; his father ran a La Clusaz ski lift. At four, Guy got his first pair of skis for Christmas. Even before he could fasten them on by himself, he could use them well enough to tackle the steepest and most treacherous slopes. From the start, he aimed at becoming a champion. Recalls one townsman: "Guy seemed to realize even before he could reason that he would have to strengthen his body. When he was nine or ten, I used to see him running all over the countryside at 6 o'clock...