Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Painted Desert. Like an apprehensive human who had plummeted from the sky onto alien soil, Viking first looked down at its footing, transmitting back to Pasadena the historic, if not dramatic first picture from the Martian surface. It showed one of the lander's round footpads resting upon an area of hard-packed soil strewn with pebbles and small rocks of varying sizes. At J.P.L., 212 million miles away, scientists could clearly see the rows of rivets on the lander's foot, late (Martian) afternoon shadows and-extending from rocks-dirt tails that might have been formed...
...pole, with living things." But, noted Sagan, nothing in the pictures ruled out the existence of life on the planet either. Soffen added that the lander's immediate vicinity held half a dozen niches in which conventional biology, including hundreds of life forms, could be detected in a desert on earth. "The microbes of Mars are within our grasp, if they are there," said Soffen. "There could be cockroaches under those rocks...
...make much of the process of detection, nor does he specialize in suspense. Instead, he neatly packs his books with such old-fashioned virtues as mood, character and research. The Poison Oracle (1974) is a good example. Set in an imaginary Arab kingdom, it delves into cultural anthropology (desert v. marsh Arabs) as well as fashionable psycholinguistics (in this case, how man communicates with chimpanzee). There is a murder, to be sure, whose only witness naturally turns out to be, yes, a talkative chimpanzee...
...paintings are etched with hard desert lines and spaces, and at times, Artist Georgia O'Keeffe has seemed like a prickly flower blooming in one of her own solitary landscapes. To a reporter visiting her isolated home in Abiquiu, N. Mex., she once offered this insight into her work: "If you don't get it, that's too bad." At the mellowing age of 88, however, O'Keeffe has decided there is a bit to be said after all. The result is a book of reflections on her life as a painter due to come...
Another 63 propelled him to second in the 1972 Bob Hope Desert Classic and in 1970 he carded a 61 in the Phoenix. Miller has been rather dryly described as "a Mormon of abstemious habits who strides freely along the fairways with an air of dedicated, almost detached, purpose." But on Saturday he once again confirmed his ability to shoot for the jugular, as he humbled Royal Birkdale with a brilliant salvo of shots that earned him four birdies and an eagle on the thirteenth...