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...tailored togs and thin skins do not prove as warm as the traditional thick parkas, the girls have one consolation-they can get that much closer to their dates riding up in the chair lift...
...earthquake, says Columbia University Geologist Paul Kerr, whose investigation is described in the current issue of Scientific American. While probing beneath the battered sand, gravel and silt surface of Anchorage during the past two summers, Kerr studied an underlying layer of quick clay from 10 to 30 ft. thick. During the three minutes of the quake's violent up-and-down jolting, he concluded, some of the quick clay under Anchorage turned into liquid, triggering the damaging landslides that literally floated large sections of land to new locations...
...Army Chief of Staff also represents a breed that is now rare in the Pentagon-the battlefield hero. From infantry combat in the thick of two Asian wars, handsome "Johnny" Johnson came away with a dazzle of decorations and the single-minded conviction that the American soldier must be hardier, wilier and brainier than ever before if he is to win the kind of war that the U.S. faces in Asia today. "Johnson's spirit of intellect and leadership," says the 1st Air-Cavalry's Brigadier General Richard Knowles, "is felt by every private in Viet...
Facing his first freshman football scrimmage without his pair of thick glasses, the burly Amherst guard could scarcely see. He didn't need to. Flailing arms, elbows and fists, he hurled himself at every vague shape that moved, and he made the tackle on almost every play. After 20 minutes of watching the myopic terror at work, the coach pulled him out of the scrimmage and gently reprimanded him: "It's only a game...
Like the others in the group, Dennis has been deferred by his draft board, but "only because I'm really a sick guy," he explains. His thick medical folder didn't impress the board at first, although he has something he calls "cancerous arthritis." He was finally deferred because he threatened to kill himself if the psychiatrist didn't recommend a deferment. "I'd clear all American soldiers out of Vietnam," he volunteered. "Then I'd send a note to Red China saying, 'You've got 20 minutes. The bombs are on their...