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...similarity. For example, many an infantryman has slept in a water-filled foxhole for "hours of darkness"; frozen, greasy hamburger or spaghetti in the same condition has been eaten (albeit, without much relish) by the same infantrymen; and if anyone thinks a hot, dusty, cramped medium tank on the Sahara Desert is any picnic, let him try it; while we are about it, let's not forget the unpleasantness of a 12-in. gun turret firing support missions for the Marines. As to that which can truly be classed as torture, the effect of such methods can be materially...
...French are determined to hang onto North Africa. The richest and most troubled part of it is Morocco. Larger than California and potentially as productive, Morocco is corrugated by the ranges of the Atlas Mountains. In the south is the Sahara, but in the north and west, along the Atlantic shore, Morocco abounds with vineyards, olive groves, forests and corn. More than 300.000 French colons, most of them settled in neat, irrigated farmsteads, have made its hillsides bloom. From its mines French engineers dig vast supplies of manganese and one-sixth of all the world's phosphates...
Three times the size of Texas, Algeria takes in a swatch of the Sahara, two broad seams of the Atlas Mountains, and a 100-mile-wide ribbon of fertile Mediterranean littoral where most of its largely Moslem population lives. Pacified, colonized, civilized through 125 years, Northern Algeria is officially a part of metropolitan France, and sends its Deputies to the Paris Parliament. Its approximately one million European settlers produce enormous quantities of the same wine and wheat that Frenchmen already produce in surfeit at home. Result: it must be subsidized from home, to the tune of some $50 million...
...nothing like I imagined," says Giacometti. "I found the human head absolutely strange and without dimensions . . . One could spend an entire life on the end of a nose. The difference between one side of the nose and the other became like a Sahara, limitless...
...designed man's body for a groundling's life, never more than treetop height above the earth's surface. In the upper reaches of the atmosphere or in the airless space beyond, man is as much out of his element as a mackerel marching across the Sahara. But unlike the mackerel, man is determined to transcend his environment. He reaches for the stars. A short half-century after the Wright brothers skittered over the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk aircraft now on the designers' boards will fly at heights...