Word: canyoneering
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...ever attempted to visit on the moon. To the northeast lies a towering, 15,000-ft. peak called Mount Hadley. Another mountain, Hadley Delta, only slightly less majestic at 12,000 ft., looms directly to the south. To the west is a winding, milewide, 1,200-ft.-deep canyon. Yet two U.S. astronauts are scheduled to land in the midst of that treacherous terrain at 6:15 p.m. E.D.T., Friday, July 30. Their landing will mark the beginning of man's fourth and most daring lunar assault...
...final excursion is scheduled to begin Monday at 3:24 a.m. E.D.T., with a tour along Hadley Rille, one of the many canyon-like features on the moon that have long puzzled scientists. Most experts now dismiss the idea that rilles were carved out by water, like the Rio Grande Gorge near Taos, N. Mex., which they resemble; instead, the canyons may be the result of lava flows. To help settle the argument, the astronauts plan to drive part way down the slope, which begins at a relatively gentle incline of about 10°. As the going gets rougher...
...living. In the early Tin Pan Alley days she and Goffin, whom she has since divorced, led a hectic life, and had to bring their baby to the office. Now she lets very little disturb the life she has arranged for herself in the Laurel Canyon house in Los Angeles where she tends to her nine-and eleven-year-old daughters by her first marriage; she is expecting the first child of her recent marriage to Bass Player Charles Larkey...
...FACT, the new administration began almost immediately to treat U. S. involvement in Vietnam as a military contest. In March 1969, a contingent of U. S. Marines entered Laos in a mission new known as Dewey Canyon I-a mission which even a number of close Kissinger aides didnot know of at the time. The bombing of predominantly civilian areas in Laos was vastly stepped up, and the U. S. air command began the use of B-52s in raids on Cambodia that May. Throughout this period, Kissinger was telling visitors-particularly student groups-that the war would be over...
...Operation Dewey Canyon III in Washington [May 3] was an excellent illustration of our disgusting situation in Southeast Asia. The actors are veterans. Who should be listened to more attentively? The phrase "They're cowards-they're afraid to go" cannot be utilized here. They have gone. Who could turn his back on a blinded or limbless soldier whose purpose is not evasion of the draft but instruction on the horrifying results of the draft...