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Luxury campsites! The very phrase is a non sequitur. As any Boy Scout knows, a campsite is a clearing in the woods where the greatest luxury is a running brook. The basic urge of the true camper is to escape from chlorine, color TV and asphalt. The climb up Mount Horrid is an excellent baptism. In six-tenths of a mile, the trail rises sharply 600 ft. We were out of breath halfway up, and I thought my heart was about to pound out of my chest. At 2,800 ft., the trail levels off on a rocky perch called...
Johnny's father, a devout Mormon, was very proud of his son's zeal. He always told Johnny that playing winning golf was like climbing a mountain. "It's easy to climb halfway," the father said, "but that is just the beginning. You must learn to never think negative. You can become a professional, but if you want to become a champion, you are going to have to do more." Johnny did. In 1966, when he was 19, Johnny signed up as a caddie for the U.S. Open. Then, thinking positively, he entered the tournament...
...canopy of gray clouds that loomed over Le Bourget Airport. As 350,000 spectators watched, French Pilot Jean Franchi put his big bird through a ten-minute series of brilliantly controlled maneuvers and turns. He ended the performance with a fast pass over the field and a spectacular "zoom climb...
Then it was Koslov's turn. After a slow flight over the runway, the TU-144 started an even more awesome zoom climb, afterburners streaking yellow flame and turbofans thundering. "My God," said U.S. Test Pilot Bob Hoover, "I don't see how he can do it!" At 3,000 ft., Koslov began flattening his climb. The plane's needle nose pointed downward, then the craft went into an arrowhead plunge as the pilot struggled to regain control. The stress was too great. At 2,000 ft., the left wing ripped off first, followed by the tail...
...population groups has hardly changed at all since, say, April 1965 -indicating that the nation has made dishearteningly little progress including blacks, women and youths in productive jobs even in a flat-out boom. And as the boom gives way to an inevitable 1974 slowdown, unemployment rates could well climb next year from the present unsatisfactory level...