Word: canyoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Except for the black sky in the background, the photograph might have been mistaken for a composite of the scenic grandeur of Grand Canyon and the barren desolation of the Badlands of South Dakota. But when it was flashed unexpectedly onto a screen at a meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Boston last week, sophisticated space scientists and engineers recognized the terrain immediately. It was a spectacular closeup shot of lunar landscape. That photograph of the moon's Crater of Copernicus, said NASA Scientist Martin Swetnick, is "one of the great pictures of the century...
Most of the desert air is pushed through the mountain passes (one of which, the Santa Ana canyon, gave the wind its name), where it picks up speed before roaring out into the Los Angeles basin at velocities as high as 100 m.p.h. The remainder flows over the mountains and down the western slopes. Descending toward low-lying coastal areas, the air is compressed and heated-five degrees for every 1,000 ft. of descent. As a result, the Santa Anas often bring 100° temperatures with them-though temperatures in the Great Basin where they started may have been...
Johnson could not have been of much help. All but discarding a well-written text, he launched into a country-style, tub-thumping harangue that sent away a good part of his audience before he had finished. Standing in a concrete canyon in one of the grimiest cities in America, he declared how happy he was to get away from Washington "out in this fresh, green country." He unreeled a stupefying equation purporting to show that the 9% increase in living costs since the start of the Kennedy Administration is minuscule compared to the rise in income: "You take...
Lift of Spirit, Surge of Pride. Her powers of persuasion are considerable-and her speech writers are good too. To the population of Page, Ariz., assembled to witness the dedication of the 710-ft. Glen Canyon Dam, Lady Bird Johnson last week recalled "those disfigurements of rocks and trees where someone with a huge ego and tiny mind has splashed with paint or gouged with knife to let the world know that Kilroy or John Doe was here." But the beautification drive, she went on, "is a new kind of 'writing on the wall'-a kind that says...
...future, after all, is what the stock market is really about. And in their offices in the financial canyon of lower Manhattan, James Thomson and his Thundering Herd constantly ponder the possibilities of tomorrow, next month, next year and next decade. In their own expansion plans, Thomson & Co. are betting heavily on a bright market future. "The biggest problem facing Merrill Lynch right now," says Thomson, "is to be in a position to handle bigger volume when it comes. And we believe it is coming...