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...lives of few of his countrymen have not been touched by J.D.R. Jr.'s gifts of land to the nation: Atlantic rollers loudly crashing and spuming on the rock-girt coasts of Acadia National Park in Maine; the rhododendrons of the Great Smokies, redolent and languid in the haze; Jackson Hole, sweeping green and tawny and on across shimmering lakes to the foot of the icy, steep Tetons in the fall. "It was such a beautiful place," J.D.R. Jr. would say, "and I wanted to have it opened up so that people would...
...Swedish Case. Stockholm, by her version, was cruising easterly at 18 knots on the night of July 25. She sailed a moderate sea with little wind and a shining moon. Though other ships reported fog off Nantucket that night, Stockholm insisted that "although there was a haze on the horizon, visibility was good." The liner's radar, "operating perfectly," indicated another vessel ten miles off. Soon Andrea Doria came into sight two miles away. "Although the vessels were in a position to pass safely port to port, red to red, Stockholm went to starboard to give even greater passing...
...other great waters by climate and position, this million-square-mile sea of coves and arms and islets is made to man's measure. "Like frogs around a pond," said Plato, "we have settled down upon the shores of this sea." Island-hopping along Aegean shores in the haze of lazy, sunlit waters, the Phoenicians and Greeks of 30 centuries ago first learned the arts of maritime commerce, and of naval war-including the amphibious landing. Across the golden bridge of the Grecian islands the civilizations of the Valleys of the Nile and Euphrates first advanced to Europe. Across...
...repeatedly shot off horses, and many of the same Navajo Indians who have been losing battles in John Ford pictures since 1938. By now, all of them perform with practiced ease: the women know just where to stand on the cabin porch as they peer off anxiously into the haze and mesa-filled distances; the men automatically fall into line for a barn dance or a posse. In fact, they may be getting too practiced and familiar. Even John Wayne seems to have done it once too often as he makes his standardized, end-of-film departure into the sunset...
...turn from this ghastly vision, the past takes on a new allure. But it is a mirage, similar to the old grad's beery haze, which, as it filters dreams from experience, hides from us, at a most critical period, the realization of life's essential and incessant cruelty...