Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn one day last week, a bus pulled out of the stockade at Elath, Israel's southernmost outpost and single Red Sea port. It headed north into the Negeb desert, toward Beersheba and civilization, wheezing and jogging for hours through the cratered wasteland that comprises half of Israel. The 15 passengers chatted and compared souvenirs. Outside, vultures wheeled in the pale...
High over California's Mojave Desert, The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard, in the U.S. for a royal look at aircraft plants and military planes, took over the controls of a TF-86 Sabre Jet trainer from a test pilot, sent the craft into a screaming dive and smashed through the sound barrier. After a trial-landing maneuver, the prince circled, neatly brought the Sabre Jet in all by himself. Later, six miles out in the Pacific off Los Angeles, the prince, with no inkling that he was pushing his luck, was flying a propeller-driven Navy trainer when...
...Living Desert. Walt Disney's first full-length film of nature in the raw (TIME...
...DESERT IN THE HEART (249 pp.)-Peter Gladwin-Rinehart...
...living and working in London hammers home an old truth: people can't help being what they are and suffering the consequences. What keeps Author Peter Gladwin from seeming merely to ring changes on an old cliche is a combination of life and modesty in his writing. The Desert in the Heart does not try for much; it achieves sympathy for its people through the simple device of dealing with them sympathetically...