Word: canyoneering
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...nation's 3,000,000 golfers were in hibernation. Last week, except for a burst of New Year's Eve celebrating, country clubs from Maine to Medicine Hat were silent and windswept, their fairways and greens deserted. One that was not lay in a small coastal canyon about a mile from the Pacific Ocean. Golf balls by the dozens whizzed down Riviera's lush fairways; crowds of gawkers hustled along among the eucalyptus trees; caddies were busy as bird dogs. The $15,000 Los Angeles Open, which puts golf's winter circuit in high gear, opens...
Humphrey Bogart, of Benedict Canyon, Calif., and wife Lauren Bacall left home unexpectedly for a day's visit with friends. The Bogart boxers had killed a skunk in the backyard, laid it triumphantly on the front doorstep, and then romped joyously through the house...
...fifties, Michelangelo began work on a new and smaller version of his 18-ft. marble masterpiece in Florence, the David. He never quite finished it. This week the little David was aboard the U.S.S. Grand Canyon, bound for the National Gallery of Art in Washington. It will have its first U.S. showing during Harry Truman's inauguration...
...After searching old texts, studying old charts, he said, he had concluded that somewhere in the Andes was an Inca capital that the Spanish never reached. Thereupon, he had gone out from Cuzco with a group of eager young scientists, had struck down the might gorge of the Urubamba canyon. Finally, on a muleteer's grudging tip, Bingham crawled up the peak known as Machu Picchu. There, under trees and matted vines, lay the lost city...
...Seven Islands, where it is ice-free about ten months out of the year. The survey for the 360-mile rail line ($100 million to build and equip) will be finished next year. The line will take three years to complete. Hollinger already has an eye on Eaton Canyon's 350-ft, waterfall, with its 500,000 h.p. potential, for a power source. Production in Ungava is probably five years away, and some $200 million will be poured into it before a ton of ore is set down at dockside...