Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raced through police lines); gave his analysis of the studio and star systems (the studios will die in a couple of years of unmitigated elephantiasis; the big stars are getting forced into television); and related how he handled his six youthful charges in Bless: "We were alone in the desert, and they did what I wanted...
Providing the trappings kept Paris merchants-who supplied everything -busy for a whole year. Bimonthly flights of aircraft and convoys of trucks that made the overland trip from Paris with relays of drivers transported the wares to the desert...
Afterward, the guests trooped into the chill desert night and sat wrapped in blankets at the foot of the ruins to watch fireworks and a son et lumière display of Persian history. After an hour the Shah, noticing some royal yawns and glazed eyes, mercifully rose from his chair and almost everybody took the welcome exit cue. The guests trooped back to their tents and had a whole morning to sleep before getting up for lunch, a parade and another dinner with the regal couple before flying home...
...spite of their heated arguments about the moon's origin, history and composition, lunar scientists usually agree on one point; that the moon is a bleak, waterless place, a million times dryer, as one researcher put it, than the Gobi Desert. That idea was challenged last week, as two Rice University scientists disclosed that they had detected the first evidence of water on the moon...
...frozen north. Camp Kilmer, near Edison, N.J., is a decaying ghost town of fire-gutted barracks and shattered glass. Unfenced, it is a tempting playground for exploring children. While squirrels and kangaroo rats nest in the bomb craters that pock 10,000 acres of California's Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, the area is off limits to human visitors because it contains unexploded bombs and rockets left there 30 years ago, when the Navy used the park as a test-firing range. Although much of the ordnance is buried deep beneath the desert sands, a civilian team sent...