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...California's Mount Whitney, 14,495 ft. high...
Schlesinger said that the missile improvements were needed to give the U.S. the ability to mount a limited retaliatory nuclear attack on Soviet military forces and installations, including hardened missile sites, without also obliterating population centers (TIME cover, Feb. 11). Opponents of the new policy, led by Senator Mclntyre, argued that Russia will consider the missile improvements an offensive development that will enable the U.S. to launch a limited first strike and knock out Russian missiles, thereby leaving the Soviets unable to launch a second in retaliation. The Russians will undoubtedly try to match the advances, thus triggering yet another...
...return for this highly symbolic concession, however, Israel will retain a military position on Mount Hermon and on three hills?A vital, Berntal and Hermonit?overlooking Quneitra. Israeli forces will thus have excellent defensive positions and observation posts above the Damascus plain...
Rock Cathedrals. Photographs like that of Mount Williamson, with its tumbled granitic boulders and slanting cathedral illumination in the sky-as if God had accepted Adams as his art director-have been instrumental in fixing the idea of "wilderness" for two generations of Americans. Probably half the millions of frames of TriX and Polaroid that tourists expose in Yosemite each season are homages, conscious or not, to Adams-sentiment imitating art in the presence of nature. Just as the traveling painters of the past century like Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran imposed a particular vision of the West...
...When the Nixon family saw King of Kings, "Julie exclaimed, 'It was wonderful! I cried so much.' Tricia said, 'I didn't cry when Christ died--He had suffered so much. I cried during the Sermon on the Mount because it was so beautiful...