Word: clefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kingdom of Jordan is hard at work on a peculiar problem: how to keep tourists from drowning in the desert. Such startling accidents actually do occur. Last spring, when a flash flood from a rare rainstorm roared down the Siq, a vertical-walled cleft that leads to the famous dead city of Petra, a group of French travelers was trapped, and only two out of 26 survived. Jordanian authorities are anxious to keep the tourists coming, though, and the ancient Siq, reputedly opened by Moses with the flick of a magic rod, is the most dramatic approach to Petra...
...with the pilots and the passengers. Dolores is the wild one who zeroes in on a baron with a flashy gold cigarette case; Lois is blue because she is "over 30" and unwed; and Pamela is a way-out innocent on a collision course for the plane's cleft-chinned pilot (Hugh O'Brian). Paris, Vienna and picturesque Idlewild furnish the backdrops...
...than most of my work, so I thought it belonged there"); Lynn Chadwick's batlike, three-legged Stranger III will remain on the ramp leading up from the duomo; Nino Franchini's leaping spire of torn steel will stay on the spot where it was made, a cleft between two ancient houses...
...previous 2,500 years. Except for specialized and usually local deficiencies in the diet, such as iodine, malnutrition is now known not to be a major cause of malformations. Stress and strain on the mother play a role in some birth defects (they have been blamed for harelip and cleft palate), but just what is far from clear...
Under Pressure. At 49, Cousteau looks as if he might be either an esthete or an ascetic, and he is somewhere in between. His face, hollow-cheeked, cleft by the lean curve of an aristocratic nose and scoured by furrows, might have been carved by the sea itself. His body is gnarled. "My!" said one fluttery female admirer, "have you been shrunk by pressure...