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...physical strength a man peaks at 21 and plateaus to the late 60s, the period when degenerative diseases stalk. The arduous training program of the astronauts, five of whom are over 40 (Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, Donald Slayton, Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom), has proved that a man can double his normal physical competence at ages much beyond 21. Any middle-ager's physiological potential is probably as unique as his fingerprints. The hair may grow thinner, but the capacity for mental growth is unimpaired in middle age. It is obvious that a man or woman of 40 can understand...
...dust storms, no dust ever gets into the dark areas. Sometimes dust comes right up to a dark area and appears to bounce back suddenly. This would be difficult to explain if the dark areas were lowlands, Pollack said. But it fits perfectly if the dark areas are high plateaus which turn away dust streams
...remarkable turnabout in the war is the result of one of the swiftest, biggest military buildups in the history of warfare. Everywhere today South Viet Nam bustles with the U.S. presence. Bulldozers by the hundreds carve sandy shore into vast plateaus for tent cities and airstrips. Howitzers and trucks grind through the once-empty green highlands. Wave upon wave of combat-booted Americans-lean, laconic and looking for a fight-pour ashore from armadas of troopships. Day and night, screaming jets and prowling helicopters seek out the enemy from their swampy strongholds in southernmost Camau all the way north...
...South, that their supplies from North Viet Nam have been rudely interrupted by American air strikes (as well as by malaria and dysentery along the Ho Chi Minh trail), that they are losing support among the people, and that the Communists are now regrouping in the mountain plateaus above Saigon as if for a last stand. "In short," wrote Chaffard, "a certain reversal of opinion has begun...
Down from the smoky plateaus above the South China Sea crept column after column of refugees, carrying with them their tools, their pigs and the elders of their tribes...