Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dead Sea, customers will float in glass-bottom boats and look down upon Sodom and Gomorrah. A dark journey through the thoracic cavity of Jonah's whale will end up in a wild slide down the monster's tongue. Camels will clunk along through Egypt's Valley of the Kings, taking clients to the pyramids. Donkeys will bear the weight of multitudes from Nazareth to Jerusalem...
Standing at the western end of the Valley of Jezreel, 18 miles southeast of Haifa, Megiddo (the Armageddon of the Book of Revelation) dominates the best route from Egypt to Mesopotamia and has been important strategically for more than 4,000 years. Today it is mostly a ruined city wall. Stables for 450 horses show that it had an important garrison of chariots, which were then the decisive military weapon. The Old Testament says that Solomon built Megiddo, and archaeologists who excavated the city before World War II decided that the Bible was essentially right...
...LAST VALLEY (176 pp.)-J.B. Pick -Little, Brown...
Dark Satanic Mills. In the Down-Under dominion's heavily industrial Hutt Valley (pop. 80,000), Dr. Eastcott found conditions for his inquiry as neatly laid out as in a laboratory experiment. By excluding Maoris, he dealt with people almost entirely of British extraction. Under socialized medicine, all got the same health care. Their smoking habits were essentially the same. All were living where the wind is strong and almost continuous, so that air pollution is negligible. But some had been born and raised there, while others were immigrants who had spent the first part of their lives...
...skiers finished about as expected-the best they could do was a 35th in the giant slalom. It was apparent that at Squaw Valley, U.S. skiing prestige will be in the hands of the girls. They seem strong enough...