Word: sand
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...more than 300 miles in diameter at its base. Evidence of the fury of Martian winds can be seen in a number of pictures that show tear-shaped features to the leeward side of craters and other surface irregularities. Scientists believe that these features are wind shadows of sand that are formed behind the craters by the violent winds. One photograph shows an area with unusual swirls, and a crater-like feature that to the hard-working JPL scientists seems to have definite feminine characteristics. The area has been named "Lascivious Lacus...
...cups to scare the screws, a Cagneyesque sort of stir with even a certain nostalgic romance about it. Its reality, of course, has always been bleaker. Before Warden Clinton Duffy took over in 1940 and turned "Q" for a time into a model for penal reform, the vast sand-colored fortress on San Francisco Bay offered sadistic guards, shaved heads, the airless "hole" for solitary, dinner out of buckets and a gallows painted baby blue. But then, San Quentin compensated for its miseries by being fairly easy to escape from. Sometimes 60 or 70 prisoners at a time would...
Near flat altars on the sand stand priests and priestesses; well-dressed Brazilians as well as poor favelados line up to receive their blessings. Drums beat, drinking and chanting start, and worshipers seized by spirits begin their slow, rotating dance. As the old year wanes, fireworks flare above the beach. Then at midnight, hundreds of thousands of little homemade rafts bearing the offerings are pushed or paddled far out into the waves. If the offering is "accepted" by lemanjá it does not wash back onto the shore and it spells a lucky New Year. Hours later the people wander...
South of Sehjra, Indian armored units have been plowing through sand across the West Pakistan border, taking hundreds of square miles of desert and announcing the advance of their troops to places that apparently consist of two palm trees and a shallow pool of brackish water. Among the enemy equipment reported captured: several camels. The reason behind this rather ridiculous adventure is the fear that Pakistan will try to seize large tracts of Indian territory to hold as ransom for the return of East Bengal. That now seems an impossibility with Bangladesh an independent nation, but India wants to have...
...tone down the hard sell of their advertising and play up the creative side of their products. They are also switching their TV commercials from Saturday and Sunday mornings to prime time, when grownups also are the viewers. "The ad has to hit the family," says Herbert R. Sand, executive vice president of Ideal Toy Corp. "The child has to get the approval of his mother or father." But the manufacturers' best public efforts in the TV room may be thwarted by prospective parents' private decisions in the bedroom. Because of the decline in births...