Word: canyoneering
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...past two decades, Merritt-Chapman has had a hand in more than $1.5 billion worth of construction work, including the Mackinac Bridge, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, the Niagara Power Project, the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona, Priest Rapids Dam in Washington and the New Jersey Turnpike. The company also undertook smaller projects ranging from roads in Ethiopia to Air Force early-warning stations in Labrador...
...picture follows a plot line more primitive than its subject. In a cavern, in a canyon dwells the Rock tribe, whose idea of a big time is letting a vulture carry on with grandpaw's carrion. Lowbrow-beaten by his father, and pushed off a cliff by a dribbling sibling, young Tumak (John Richardson) rebels and goes into the caveman business for himself. Eventually, he stumbles across the Shell people, a group in a more advanced state of civilization, as evidenced by their stone-headed spears and the pneumatic uplift of Raquel Welch's deerskin halter...
...midafternoon, sleeps his way across the Nebraska plains, spends the next day traveling through the fir forests and deep gorges of the Colorado Rockies, sleeps the second night as the train rolls through the Nevada desert, wakes up on the final morning in California's breathtaking Feather River Canyon. En route, the train serves good, moderately priced food in dining cars that sport vases of fresh carnations at every table. Not surprisingly, the California Zephyr has proved increasingly popular with foreign tourists and Americans alike. During all of last year, the Zephyr operated at 78% of capacity...
...standard war flicks cast a Steve Canyon type as the hero of "Rat Patrol," "Combat," and the like. One's immediate response to "The Last War" is that TV has finally told the truth, that someone has finally thrown away the conventional rules about what should and shouldn't be discussed. The plot is somewhat formulaic, and Winter is something of a stereotype--the sensitive youth who grew up on a color-conscious world that killed his mother and kicked him around. But they are not the cliches one expects to find...
...original spending estimates as, say, Defense Secretary McNamara. This Christmas season, G.I. Joe is still the bestselling single new toy around, despite the competition of other dolls such as Stone Burke, paratrooper, James Bond, Illya Kuryakin and Captain Action, who can be dressed as Batman, Superman or Steve Canyon. Keeping the troops faithful to Joe are a brand-new G.I.-Joe Mercury capsule with solid silver space suit ($10), a G.I.-Joe Sea-Sled that operates under water ($14), and a six-man international task force of "action soldiers of the world"-French, German, Japanese, British, Australian...