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...Kallia was a sprawling Jordanian army base, rich in history but little else. Near by sit the brown Judean cliffs in whose natural caves were found the treasures of the Dead Sea scrolls. At Ain (spring) Feshkha, a favorite spa of ancient Rome's 1 Oth Legion officers, waters still ripple out of the otherwise lifeless ground. When Israeli armor appeared on June 7, 1967, Kallia's Arab defenders had vanished across the Jordan River, leaving buildings, installations and many vehicles intact. For a time, Kallia was merely another dot on Israeli military maps of the occupied territories...
...work at 7 a.m. and is incapable of being chairborne for very long. The way to go any place, as far as the President is concerned, is by air; he was trained to fly by the U.S. Air Force, and he reaches for the controls of an aircraft like oth er taut executives reach for a golf club...
...been thoroughly reviewed and then approved by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Thus, when the Scientific-Study of Unidentified Flying Objects was finally made public last week, it spoke with authority. Its conclusions all but demolished the idea that earth has been visited by creatures from oth er planets. Despite a few remaining puzzles, there is no evidence, said the report, that UFOs are spaceships from extraterrestrial civilizations and no scientific justification at this time for any further extensive saucer investigations...
...real" man? In common with oth ers who have devoted much of their adult lives to politics, Humphrey and Nixon are like geological formations, created, stratum upon stratum, by deposits of history and evolution-their own and the world's-over decades...
...existence." Wiggy Look. Clurman expected formidable difficulties: his Japanese vocabulary consists of only ten words. But communication was a comparative cinch. First, he had to pry his cast loose from the stylized posturing of the kabuki influence. "The actors would play for the audience instead of for each oth er," says Clurman. "This is just the opposite from the technique of modern re alism, in which the actors are supposed to play to each other as if there were no audience at all." Kabuki also goes in for exaggerated emotions. "When a few tears were called for," Clurman explains...