Word: cave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mayor Teddy Kollek's municipal government has lifted the nightly curfew, and cool jazz echoes once more through cobbled alleyways from the Cave du Roi and Les Caves discotheques...
Disguised Footprints. At first, Itō and his fellow stragglers ate raw breadfruit and coconuts and lived in a cave. None of them was a woodsman, and none had gone through even a basic survival course in the Imperial Army. (Itō was the son of a well-to-do farmer and had an eighth-grade education.) Slowly they learned to adapt themselves to jungle life, and their habits changed...
...that they occasionally managed to kill. They kept an eye on the U.S. base -and on its garbage dump, which they sometimes raided for supplies. Using discarded tools and old tires, they fashioned round, oversized sandals that both protected their feet and ingeniously disguised their footprints. Deciding that a cave was too obvious a hiding place, they slept under rudimentary lean-tos in jungle thickets, constantly changing locations to avoid discovery by the one enemy who knew the jungles as well as they did: Guam's native Chamorro tribesmen, whom the Americans had assigned to clear the island...
Sitting in the sunlight, says Dr. Wilson, is good only for plants. "If you don't have chlorophyll in your veins and arteries, direct sunlight can do you nothing but harm.† Human beings would be healthy if they lived inside a building or cave all the time and never went out in the sun." They would also, of course, be pallid, and in today's civilization a pasty hue is no sign of beauty. Aware of that, Dr. Wilson suggests use of an "instant tan" product. For those who insist on the sun, he advises the most...
...flowing on earth. If any water remains on the moon today, he says, it is probably in the form of ice buried below the surface and insulated from solar heat. The gradual melting and vaporization of this ice, which would leave voids beneath the surface, may account for the cave-ins visible in moon-probe photographs...