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Romantic History. Hiram Bingham, Yale scholar and later U.S. Senator from Connecticut, set out on muleback in 1911 in search of the lost Indian city, which he was convinced was more than legend. For years there was talk of ruins located far above the Urubamba Canyon near Cuzco, but they were known only to a few local Indians until Bingham came upon "a great flight of beautifully constructed stone-faced terraces, perhaps a hundred of them, each hundreds of feet long and ten feet high." Bingham died five years ago, after spending much of his free time exploring and writing...
Misplaced Pacific. To geophysicists, the Puerto Rico Trench is one of the most interesting places on earth. Lying north of Puerto Rico, it is something like the Grand Canyon sunk under three to four miles of water. Like other deep ocean trenches, it is believed to be a place where the earth's crust is sinking into the interior, perhaps carried down by slow, enormous currents in the plastic mantle. Since trenches are characteristic of the Pacific Ocean, where they abound, some geophysicists consider the Puerto Rico Trench a part of the Pacific that has bulged into the Atlantic...
...tent lashed to its top, its interior littered with toilet paper, pillows and sun caps. Missing was Mrs. Sullivan's 14-year-old daughter Denise. Boothroyd and the Sullivans had been sightseeing at Dead Horse Point, a towering promontory that commands a magnificent view of the Colorado River canyon and the surrounding Utah badlands. They had stopped on the highway to aid a fellow motorist. "Generator trouble." explained the swarthy stranger as he asked to borrow Boothroyd's flashlight. Then he produced a rifle and demanded money. Boothroyd threw his wallet-containing $250-to the ground...
...West Coast foreigners prefer Disneyland to Hollywood. "You really should have let Khrushchev go to Disneyland," said one Scot. "He probably would still be there if you had." Another great Russian favorite is the tomb of Rudolph Valentino. Still high on every foreigner's list: the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, and the elaborate curlicue highway system. For the sociologically minded, Negro districts are a must. One tourist guide in San Francisco now makes a point of stopping poorly dressed Negroes in the street to ask directions. "I always get a polite reply," she says. "I think that this does...
PUBLIC POWER : Goldwater voted to free gas producers from federal regulation, opposed federal ownership of Hells Canyon Dam in 1956. But he supported the $1 billion, federally sponsored Upper Colorado River Storage Project, which will mightily benefit his Arizona constituents...