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...South Pass gateway through the Rockies and the last missing link in the Oregon Trail. The Plains Indians, who were some of history's toughest cavalrymen, also found their match in Smith and his "mountainmen." One of them kept on trapping for three years with a 3 -in. arrowhead embedded in his back...
...speed, the wings will angle back ward at 72.5°, turning the airplane into a sharp, pointed arrowhead. The problem of moving the wings quickly and surely under the enormous air pressures of high speed was not easy, but it seems to have been licked...
...year more than 200 youngsters flocked to courses in everything from art to astronomy. Happy to help, regular public school teachers volunteer their services for $6 a night. U.C.L.A. is so impressed that it wants 30 of Slaton's top students to attend the university's Lake Arrowhead science center for a weekend of astronomy and nature studies. The power of Slaton's project is its simple premise-not to reform public schools or start private schools, but to help kids help themselves to learning. Slaton says that his objective is "to stimulate or heighten interest." Adds...
...Cuba was celebrated with the inevitable parade and even more inevitable speech. The parade at least was better than usual, if less fun: gone were the baggy pants and nonchalant waves to bystanders. Now it was all crisp creases, steel helmets and eyes staring mechanically front. As tight arrowhead formations of Soviet-built MIG jets thundered overhead, Cubans got their first glimpse of Russian missiles: the bulky surface-to-surface variety carried by coastal patrol boats, and the grey, sharp-nosed SA-2 antiaircraft rockets that presumably shot down a U-2 reconnaissance plane two months ago. As the missiles...
...vast stretches of the U.S. as a "Sahara of the Bozart." In those days, grand opera companies or symphony orchestras seldom ventured outside a dozen or so of the largest cities; public art museums, if they existed at all, were usually ill-lit annexes to the local fossil and arrowhead collection. The theater meant Broadway, and the road companies that once trouped every town hall in the land had long since bowed to the onslaughts of celluloid and popcorn...