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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While chasing a grizzly bear one day in 1847, Explorer-Surveyor William Bell Elliott blundered into a canyon that looked to him like "the gates of Hell." Huge, spiraling columns of steam hissed out of the ground; the earth trembled beneath his feet. "The Geysers," as he named the hill-rimmed valley 85 miles north of San Francisco, is as awesome as ever. But its frightening bursts of steam are now being harnessed. The canyon is the site of the first commercial geothermal-power plant in the U.S., and the installation has paid off so handsomely in eight years...
...rock pile near 42nd Street. A gang of toughs followed him, "grabbed him, and taking him to the top of the rocks stripped his uniform off him, and after beating him almost to a jelly, threw him over a precipice some 20 feet high on the rocks beneath...
Much discussion at the Expedition's base camp here has centered on "Stephansson's Theory," a rather simple assertion that the ocean beneath the pack ice contains enough animal life to support a handful of travelers indefinitely. Although this Expedition does not actually depend on game meat for survival, the number of large animals they actually sight will provide some idea of the theory's validity...
...purchased, Norman Jewison, normally a versatile, canny director (The Russians Are Coming, In the Heat of the Night), would surely have included it. Unable to do so, he has turned out a glimmering, empty film reminiscent of an haute couture model: stunning on the surface, concave and undernourished beneath...
...site of the investigations was beside an altar of the original basilica, built by the Emperor Constantine in the 4th century and unearthed during excavations beneath St. Peter's begun in 1939. The results of the excavations led Pope Pius XII to announce in 1950 that the tomb of Peter had been discovered. Three years later, Professor Margherita Guarducci, who teaches Greek epigraphy and antiquities at the University of Rome, began studying the inscriptions on a red plaster wall inside which the skeletal remains had been found. "As soon as I saw the cloth remnants," says Dr. Guarducci...