Word: canyoneering
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Dust Chronicle. Tipped off by Don Ignacio Guerra, a local rancher and amateur archeologist, he struggled up the remote Infernillo (Little Hell) Canyon and at last reached two caves in its vertical sides. The floor of the first was covered with four feet of dustlike material that he recognized at once as archeological pay dirt. It was chiefly the dried-up remains of millenniums of human occupancy...
...will extend three spring-cushioned legs on which (if all goes well) it will come to rest in a vertical position, undamaged and ready for the earthbound blastoff. This delicate maneuver requires a level landing site; if the spaceship were to hit the lunar equivalent of the Grand Canyon, it would have small chance of seeing the earth again...
...suggestion of the local Chamber of Commerce, the Ministerial Alliance of Canyon, Texas (pop. 4,364) started a series of public prayers for rain. In Santa Fe, N. Mex., also in the Southwest's drought area, Roman Catholic Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne ordered prayers for rain, too. A few hours later, rain fell...
...next 50 to 75 years, for a total of 137 dams, which would provide flood control and irrigation for 10 million acres of land in ten states, and have a capacity of 3,200,000 kw. The next dams, if Congress approves, are to be started at Glen Canyon and Bridge Canyon on the Colorado River...
Last month, Webb moved his old gun collection, his $135 sports jackets, his portable typewriter and Dudley, his bassett hound, into a $100,000 ultramodern two-bar house, high in Beverly Hills' celebrity-studded Coldwater Canyon. Last week he had the house up for sale. In his intense and single-minded haste to go on conquering Hollywood, he has not even found time to use his swimming pool. "Jack," says Stanley Meyer, the protocol-conscious business manager of Webb's Mark VII Productions, "would live in one room with a cot and a movie projector...