Word: canyoneering
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...entitled "Damning of the West," said that the Bureau's activities are more than just obsolete. Among the environmental damages catalogued are the despoliation of the Snake River area in Idaho, extensive pollution of the Colorado River, and a recent attempt by the Bureau to dam up the Grand Canyon...
...Early guests have been staying at the Polynesian Village Hotel, built in Tahitian style along a lake shore, with 500 rooms in five so-called long houses. The Contemporary Resort Hotel, which looks vaguely like a Mayan pyramid and features a 14-story-deep lobby appropriately called the Grand Canyon Concourse, will be finished by January, and two more cavernous hotels-in Persian, Thai and Venetian styles-have yet to be started. The prices at Disney World seem reasonable enough. Hotels range from $22 to $40 for a room large enough for a family of four. Package plans include...
...fastened to a wall, a built-in double bed that lifts up to reveal storage areas underneath, or easily inflatable air mattresses topped with sleeping bags. Walls are decorated according to individual fancy: John Vajda, 19, and Tony Stepic, 20, are currently parked on a Pacific beach near Topanga Canyon in a 1953 Ford van with a red, white and blue interior and a kitchen cupboard done in stars and stripes...
After returning to the rover, Astronauts Scott and Irwin drove to Hadley Rille, a long, winding, 1,200-ft.-deep canyon whose origin has long been the subject of scientific debate. While the rover's remote-controlled TV camera followed them with its big-brotherly eye, the astronauts walked slowly down the rille's gently sloping near side. On the almost vertical far wall, they spotted at least two major layers of material. Even more interesting to the scientists in Houston was the astronauts' report that the second major layer contained at least ten subordinate layers...
...even becomes a sort of folk hero. Crowds turn out from all over the state-and, it is eventually implied, from all over the country -to watch his harebrained heroics. The film ends with him jumping over 19 cars on his chopper and promising an assault on the Grand Canyon. His death, he swears, will be "glorious...