Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although tied as closely as ever to Spanish affairs, he recently purchased a house in the French mountain village of Canfranc, a stone's throw from the Spanish border, near the notheastern corner of Catalonia. For some reason such a purchase seemed very characteristic of the man, as was his description of its place in his life: "I wander over Europe from there...
...much abuse as the Red Chinese. For four years Indian staff officers have been trying to get Menon to replace the army's obsolete, single-shot Lee Enfield rifle of World War I vintage with lighter, modern automatic weapons, and to increase stocks of heavy mortars and mountain artillery. Instead, Menon blandly presided over a military organization that was starved for money; during his tenure, the Defense share of the Indian national budget dropped from...
...want to join any military alliance and that India would pay for the weapons some time in the future. Both the U.S. and Britain played along. After loading at arms depots in West Germany and Turkey, U.S. transport planes headed for India with automatic weapons, heavy mortars and mountain howitzers. British transports brought in Bren and Sten guns. France promised arms and helicopters. In New Delhi, U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Galbraith hailed the airlift of arms, but warned, "I hope no one will imagine they will work magic,'' because "the great task remains with the Indian army...
...lost territory. The task is formidable. By an accident of geography, the Himalayan border is more easily reached from the Chinese-held Tibetan plateau than from the plains of India. Kaul's army must climb up rocky Jeep paths and through heavily forested hills before reaching the mountain rampart. In this region of howling blizzards, avalanches and thin air, even Jeeps have to be fitted with superchargers, and tanks and trucks are useless because of terrible roads...
They bored a slanting shaft deep into their mountain (see diagram). Above the shaft they mounted a heliostat (a flat mirror). As the mirror turns to follow the sun across the sky, it reflects the sun's rays down the shaft where they are reflected back and focused by a concave mirror. Bounced back toward the top of the shaft, the light is intercepted at ground level by another mirror and angled into a vertical well. There the sun's image can be examined on a flat screen, photographed, or studied with a spectrograph...