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This year Americans are flocking in record numbers through the 28 major parks, the 153 national monuments, memorials, recreation areas and historic sites that make up the U.S.'s unmatched National Park system. On the Fourth of July, 34,000 rolled through the gates of Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee; 16.000 checked in at Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park; 4,000 descended into the Carlsbad Cavern of New Mexico; 8,350 arrived at Yosemite, and 20,000 at Yellowstone. By year's end, estimates the Interior Department's National Park...
...inhabited Western Europe in the Stone Age, long before the prehistoric Indo-European migrations from the east. In the complex Basque language-so difficult that, according to a Basque proverb, the devil himself failed to learn it in seven tries-stone is aitz, knife is aizto. Though basically a mountain folk, Basques make good seamen, like to point out that the pilot of Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria, was a Basque. A Basque legend has it, indeed, that a dying Basque seafarer told Columbus of the New World's existence...
...natural home: some atomic-age pundits fear that it may also be his last. Oddly, however, though man has probed earth's atmosphere, mapped its surface, scaled its highest peaks and scraped its ocean bottoms, he has largely neglected the myriad subterranean realms. In alpine cliché, a mountain is climbed "because it is there." The spelunker's incentive is that a cave is never even "there" until it is found and its depths are plumbed and proved. Mountaineering has its classic literature−Annapurna, The White Tower, etc.−but caves, mysterious, magnificent and challenging as mountains...
...nine days the sunburned soldiers dragged through the precipitous valleys and pine-covered mountain slopes, and then, as the area narrowed down, the fugitive Grivas (if indeed it was he) began to take refuge behind brush fires. Suddenly, with a change of wind, the whole area of pine forest took flame, engulfed a platoon of British soldiers...
There are a few simple mountain ballads that sing a gentler tune, and The Christus of Guadalajara shows an embracing awareness of the meaning c-Christian pity. It is true that most of these poems, some of them rich in language and nearly all steeped in emotion, are bearish on the human condition. No one reading them or seeing Williams' latest play (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) is apt to suppose that Tennessee Williams is changing his point of view. But not even Williams can stew complacently in pessimism all the time. He knows that there really...