Word: basins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What geologists call an erosion basin, the Turks call the Valley of the Fairy Kingdom. Along its broad, dusty floor, the roseate hues of the Arizona desert blend into the yellows of Cape Cod dunes. Great shafts of rock are everywhere--cones, needles, slender ridges, pyramids, columns. Some of the cones are capped by tremendous boulders perched so delicately it seems one shake would topple them...
...mile flight from Urumchi to the Soviet border discloses the Chinese vulnerability to incursions from the north. The Dzungarian basin spreads into a hard, flat, open plain beneath the P'o-lo-k'o-nu Mountains, ideal tank and tactical-air-strike country. Kazakh boys who ride bareback through the surrounding pine forests must beware the leopards that still roam the foothills of the T'ien Shan range. The border-control point is a 600-yd.-long bridge across the Ili River, where the Chinese claim that the Soviets continue to infiltrate agents. They also say border...
...sellers of Lockheeds have nothing on ancient bishops anxious to peddle a doctrine. For years around the turn of the 4th century, the Mediterranean basin was torn by a dispute about the necessity for divine grace in man's salvation. The bishops of North Africa, led by St. Augustine, insisted that human beings could do nothing without divine help. Pelagius, a theologian from foggy Britain come south to preach reform in Rome, believed that man is born spiritually free. God's grace may give him a push, but essentially he can find his own way to heaven. Augustine...
...area of the old Confederacy embraces 55 million people. It sprawls from the porticoed mansions along the James River to the bare Martian surfaces of the Permian basin. It includes the clear alpine valleys of the Blue Ridge and the subtropical swamps of south Georgia. It boasts the 18th century architecture of Charleston, S.C., and the climbing glass silos by John Portman in Atlanta. Its exports include cotton and tobacco to the North, politicians to Washington, novelists to the world and rockets to outer space...
...situation is much the same in the House. Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, who lost Ways and Means after his Tidal Basin antics, is retiring. In a virulent outbreak of democracy, freshmen in the House Democratic Caucus last year forced the ouster from chairmanships of Louisiana's F. Edward Hebert (Armed Services), and Texas' Wright Patman (Banking) and W.R. Poage (Agriculture). All were replaced by Northerners...