Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bridges, and guard the Cairo airport, the railroad terminal and key road junctions on the sprawling city's edges. Sonic booms occasionally rattle the windows of Cairenes as MIG fighters scramble daily on simulated interception missions. Through the clear air, as gun crews perfect their skills in the nearby desert, come the crump of artillery and the rhythmic tat too of antiaircraft fire...
...long-legged, are still wild about him, frequently decorating his three bedroom bachelor pad in Burbank. "I work hard and I play hard," Barry Jr. says. He pilots his own single-engined Bonanza, has sailed a yacht to Hawaii and Tahiti and keeps a brace of motorcycles for Mojave Desert hill climbing...
...desecration of the Moslem dead, the Kuala Lumpur conference decided that, since Islamic law also holds that life must be preserved if at all possible, human transplants are a legitimate life-saving tool. The meeting dealt similarly with a rather improbable dilemma involving dietary law. Lost in the desert and near starvation, a devout Moslem is suddenly confronted by two bits of unexpected sustenance: a stray piece of pork and some nonforbidden food in the hands of a traveler. Which should he take? He could not snatch the other man's food, the conference agreed, because that might cause...
...Maria sketched plans for a pair of mile-long walls, 12 ft. high and 12 ft. apart, to be built "somewhere in the Western United States." Though no collector could afford the $500,000 needed to build it, De Maria and a fellow worker flew out to the Mojave Desert and chalked two half -mile-long lines on its surface. They photographed each other standing, or lying between the oppressively inward-pressing parallel lines. As De Maria points out, "There is a terrific double energy yielded by the tightness of geometric form combined with the feeling of infinite space...
...that point, Newby and his brass knuckles take over. He has thoughtfully managed Townrow's arrival to coincide with the Suez crisis of 1956. His first night in Port Said, Townrow is robbed of all his clothes, beaten up and left in the desert. After that he moves in a "neverending daze," not much surer of who he is than everybody else...