Word: deserts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Says Robert Leighton, a California Institute of Technology physicist who is in charge of Mariner's TV experiments: "At the worst, we should be able to kill a lot of old legends about the dark lines being canals carrying water from polar ice caps to oases in the desert-or the ones that say the vast regions that change color every spring are vegetation...
...another dot on Israeli military maps of the occupied territories. Then, just a year ago, the soldier-farmers of Nahal, an acronym in Hebrew meaning "pioneering fighting youth," were dispatched to Kallia. Their mission: to protect Kallia and its portion of the frontier facing Jordan-and to make the desert bloom for Israel...
When an old eye ailment forced him to drop out of his own golf tournament, the Bob Hope Desert Classic in Palm Springs, Calif., the comedian had a substitute at the ready: that former song-and-dance man, Senator George Murphy. Said Hope of his replacement: "He's certainly made his mark on the Senate floor. He forgot to take his tap shoes...
Saturday, February 8 THE BOB HOPE DESERT CLASSIC (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). The fourth round of the annual golf tournament, live from Indian Wells Country Club in Palm Springs, Calif...
...pool-unheated. Compare that with the kind of activity available at the Club Mediterranee's 650-guest "vacation village," 45 miles away at Agadir on the Atlantic. "You name it, we do it," says Manageress Marcelle Fayt. "Sailing, riding, tennis, yoga, judo, camel riding, Scrabble, swimming, sunning, pingpong, desert safaris, deep-sea fishing, drinking, eating, kissing and frugging." All in two weeks, for $240 a person, including round-trip air fare from Paris...