Word: canyoneering
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...butte above New Mexico's Leandro Canyon last week, chilled ob servers fell silent as a voice on the public-address system reached the end of the countdown. For a tense moment, nothing happened. Then the earth jolted underfoot and a dull, distant boom was heard, followed by a second, more gentle, rolling shock. Someone shouted: "We did it! We did it!" Hand shakes were exchanged all around. The U.S. had successfully set off the first nuclear explosion sponsored jointly by the Government and industry...
...tool of Project Gasbuggy, a venture financed by the Atomic Energy Commission and the El Paso Natural Gas Co. and designed to increase natural-gas output. The blast was intended to shatter a large portion of the 285-ft.-thick layer of gas-bearing sandstone lying beneath the Leandro Canyon, thus releasing gas that is tightly locked within the rock. 35-Story Cavity. Ordinarily, gas is obtained simply by drilling a well into a formation of gas-bearing rock. Natural underground pressures then force the gas through pores in the rock into the well casing, enabling producers to tap large...
Visually, Director-Writer Oldfich Lipsky has made his film almost as zany as the plot; when Lemonade Joe enters Death Valley, he jumps down a vast canyon-only to enjoy a landing as soft as his drink. In a shootout, bullets meet in mid-air and cancel each other. A henchman pulls rabbits and bouquets from his holster. Street signs are all in English, but the dialogue is laconically drawled in jawbreaking Czech. "Hands up" is the kind of phrase that can only gain in translation-particularly when the translation is "Ruky hore...
...Guevara was sunmmarily shot by Bolivian authorities, but the apocalyptic vision he held of the Latin American revolution may yet be fulfilled. The men who gathered at the Habana Libre last August are taking up the work and the idea of the man who was trapped in an isolated canyon in southern Bolivia last month...
...colors. In the early 1950s, Francis' dappled abstracts were tight, taut and somewhat somber, a reflection of his cramped environment in Paris. But in 1957, he took a trip around the world, stayed five months in Japan, established a new home base in Santa Monica Canyon, Calif. For him, it was as if the clouds had parted, and down poured a torrent of scattered forms and heightened colors. "Francis," says Sweeney, "has become a master of decoration in the grand style." The largest Francis, a 13-ft. by 19-ft. canvas called Meaningless Gesture, dominates the museum...