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marines and 2,000 Spanish marines were deployed. High atop a yellow cliff, a Spanish admiral looked down at the smooth flow of men and machines and termed it "an incredibly complex, perfectly organized and flawless operation." It was not entirely flawless. Marine Lieut. Colonel James B. Ord, at an inland command post, noted a column of smoke twisting over pine trees on the horizon. Grumbled Ord: "Some damn fool started a forest fire. I hope they get it out quickly." Then his walkie-talkie man reported: "Two helicopters have collided and crashed." The H-34 choppers, carrying...
Less impressive was Princeton, which took a 2-0 beating from pre-season favorite Brown. It was the first time this year that coach Cliff Stevenson's Bruins have played up to their potential, and they completely stifled a Princeton offense that hadn't done too much scoring all year...
...admit that he agreed with Goldwater in some areas, particularly fiscal. But he went on to insist that he was a "middle-of-the-roader on education, health and welfare, and a liberal on civil rights." Whether Taft had got the point across depended on the outcome of a cliff-hanging vote count...
...room and bath, an atrium open to the sky, and a sunken living room are $1,000 a month. In addition to the view, other attractions are available at relatively modest extra cost to all tenants: access to the free-form swimming pool carved out of the cliff is $100 a year per family, garage parking is $25 a month, limousine service from Horizon House to Manhattan executive suites is $15 a week and Horizon House's own school bus takes kids to nearby schools for $2.50 a week...
...takes travelers most briskly from Denver to Albuquerque, but at Raton, U.S. 64 offers a detour into Taos for a look at the Pueblo cliff homes, which were America's first apartment houses, then jogs on down the Rio Grande Canyon to Santa Fe. Colorado's Million-Dollar Highway, a 23-mile stretch along U.S. 550, skirts Mt. Wilson past plunging canyons, leaping waterfalls, and the reproachful nostalgia of abandoned mining camps...