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...world's southernmost city, on the tip of the continent. More fearsome are the 20,000-ft. Andes, stretching the length of Latin America. On the 30-minute hop from La Paz to one remote mountain town, pilots of Bolivia's Lloyd Aéreo line regularly thread their way through clouded-in peaks with the copilot calling out seconds on his trusty wristwatch. And then, there are the airports. More than 80% of Latin America's 1,085 airports lack permanent night landing lights; some 75% have no control towers, radios or paved runways; and only...
...camels, they swarmed into Manhattan 150,000 strong, occupied 85 hotels and motor inns, added to the traffic jam, monopolized sidewalks, held seven-hour-long parades, and displayed a keen group sense of humor in a thousand hilarious ways, including occasionally entangling innocent natives in loops of invisible thread. They wore red fezzes, red and green floppy harem trousers, and embroidered jackets, and looked like wandering extras from The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. They were the respectable and respected members of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of North America.In other words, Shriners...
...whisk one away from the Chrysler Art Museum, only to have it drop with a clang. The second, also a space-age motif, resembles the hollow cone of a missile. Inside, visible from both ends, are two metallic spheres, one hanging down like a tiny bathysphere on its nylon thread, and by its magnet attracting the magnet in another sphere that levitates upward, tethered by a thread. Each open end of the sculpture gives out a sound like a giant sea shell humming with the rhythm of breakers. If the viewer steps back a few paces, the interior spheres look...
...until John Foster Dulles withdrew American aid, the project is being built largely by Russian engineers and money. When the $1 billion dam is completed in 1970, a 300-mile-long reservoir-dubbed Lake Nasser, of course -will add 2,000,000 green acres to Egypt's narrow thread of 6,000,000 acres of arable land. In a nation only a third larger than Texas and quite a bit bleaker, that is a considerable expansion, even if it will not by itself cure Egypt's terrible poverty. Egypt's 27 million inhabitants-twice as many...
Instant Poison. "When it is irritated," says the University of Miami's Zoologist Charles E. Lane, "the cell extends the hollow thread, and when the barb has penetrated the skin, it squeezes a tiny drop of poison the length of the tube." The instant a tentacle touches a bather, hundreds of cells go into action in a fraction of a second...