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...Alvarez hopes they are there, awaiting only the arrival of his spark chamber to be found. "After a boyhood spent watching his father's workers erecting a beautiful and complex series of chambers and passages in the Great Pyramid," he asks, "would Chephren be content to erect a solid and uninteresting pile of limestone blocks as his own pyramid...
Less than a month after disclosing; Soviet efforts to erect a defensive shield of antiballistic missiles, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara revealed last; week that both Russia's defensive missile system and its long-range offensive missiles are going into place faster than U.S. intelligence sources had anticipated. The Russians, it is now estimated will have from 650 to 700 iCBMs in; place by 1968 instead of the 600 previously expected. Of greater consequence, its new anti-missile system, which was at first thought to be limited to such major cities as Moscow and Leningrad, is now believed...
...address in Manhattan's St. Thomas Church. "Keeping quiet at some points is a question of knowing one's place before God." Then Pike resumed his place as his church's champion of unorthodoxy: "The church seems to prefer prefab answers. But when we try to erect finalities, we fall into the worst heresy of all-idolatry...
...persuading the Thais to relax a few of the rules. At Borombinam Mansion, a yellow stucco building where the Johnsons were put up inside the mile-square Grand Palace compound built by the founders of Thailand's Chakri dynasty two centuries ago, the U.S. was allowed to erect a giant antenna for the President's worldwide communications; normally, the Thais are reluctant to permit structures to soar higher than their ubiquitous Buddhist temples. When Johnson choppered into the Royal Plaza near Chitra-lada Palace for his audience with King Bhumibol Adulyadej and the lovely Queen Sirikit...
...when they pulled themselves erect for the take-off, it was clear that Brown's film was about the sport of surfing, not the cult. He ignored the beach goings-on, the bikinied "beach bunnies," and the faked-up music; instead he kept his camera on the athletes who navigated through a sea of underwater rocks, stray boards, sharks, poisonous fish, and other surfers...