Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have always been in your cell. When you were out riding your bicycle, I was sitting in your cell looking out the window and looking at pictures in magazines and wishing I could go to high school and go to the prom. My peace is in the desert or in the jail cell, and had I not seen the sunshine in the desert, I would be satisfied with the jail cell much more over your society...
From within, flattened by the heat and swept by desert winds, Vegas has the air of a city under siege, demonically challenging each godforsaken minute to be its last...
...then the Elvis engagement opened. All through August, leading up to a Labor Day crescendo, Angelinos were making the trek through the desert. "The greatest nightclub act ever," they reported back. (None of us stopped to think that in a world
where glossy male performers dressed in tightly cut dinner jackets or casual turtleneck sweaters to sing "Raindrops Keep Falling" and "The Impossible Dream," such reports were faint praise.) "And Elvis has never been better," they said. No quibbling over that. Clearly, whatever was happening out there in the desert, it was something we owed in to ourselves...
After Mariners 6 and 7 photographed Mars last year and went into perpetual orbits around the sun, scientists at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory conducted an important test. Using NASA's giant 210-ft. Goldstone antenna in the California desert, they beamed powerful radio signals past the sun toward the little unmanned spacecraft. When they reached the Mariners some 250 million miles away, the signals were automatically amplified on board and transmitted back to earth. The entire round trip took only about 43 minutes, but the results may be momentous for all of physics. Last week...