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...weighed more than a fraction of the 707's 180,000 Ibs. Ever so lightly, Wood brought the 707 down, down, until its huge wheels skimmed along the packed sand and began to turn. Then he eased the wheel forward and set the plane down on the baked desert crust. It held. Gaza One had safely landed at "Revolution Airstrip...
...this optimism is the upheaval in geological thinking that took place during the 1960s. No longer is the earth's crust thought of as a rigid shell, but rather as a dozen gigantic, mobile "plates." These plates are thought to be driven slowly across the terrestrial surface by enormous currents within the earth. When two plates collide, one slides under the other, causing deep and devastating earthquakes like the one that rocked Peru in June. Shallower quakes occur when two plates slide past each other, as do the two sides of the San Andreas Fault system in California...
...Upper Crust...
Especially fascinating are ten reconstructions of the parlors, dining rooms, gardens and even furniture stores of the era's big-city upper crust. These handsome period settings ignore folk art and country furniture, and they exude a shameless relish for the lives of the very rich. But they also make a major contribution toward a re-evaluation of the high-style decorative arts of the 19th century, one of the last great neglected areas of art scholarship and appreciation...
...battled Cambodian soldiers at Ang Tasom and Takeo, the provincial capital, closing two key highways linking Phnom-Penh with southern ports. Roughly 100 miles northeast of Phnom-Penh, Communist troops blew up a bridge and occupied a town in Kratie province. Another force, attacking by boat, raided the upper-crust Cambodian resort of Kep on the Gulf of Siam, where they set fire to municipal buildings and killed several civilians before escaping...