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...they have been picked up by Luke Skywalker, a handsome young farmer. Though Luke does not know it, his father also fought the Empire before he was foully murdered by Darth Vader. Luke, Artoo Detoo and the ungainly Threepio have been attacked by Tatooine's native nasties, the sand people, and they have only just been saved by an old hermit...
...first day of shooting, all the robots performed perfectly. It never happened again. Strange radio signals seemed to emanate from the Tunisian sand, and the remote-controlled Artoos ran wild, as if their oil had come from Vat 69. Says Barry: "I was incredibly grateful each time an Artoo actually worked right." Even Artoo Detoo, with Baker inside, seemed out of control. Baker could scarcely see where he was going through Artoo's headlights, and he bumped into the unwieldy Threepio, sending him tumbling. Daniels could not see much better through Threepio's eyes, covered with real gold...
KOBUK VALLEY. Fifty-six kilometers (35 miles) north of the Arctic Circle, the Kobuk Valley presents another topographical surprise-a stretch of glacier-formed sand dunes, some as high as 30 meters (100 ft.), where summer temperatures can soar to more than 38° Celsius (100°F.). The desert-like dunes are more than 33,000 years old; pre-Eskimo archaeological sites along Onion Portage, which cuts through them, are estimated to be 10,000 years old and are considered among the most important in the Arctic...
...passed the ERA. Proclaims NOW Founder Betty Friedan: "I say to the women of America, we gotta stop being so ladylike." Florida legislators were quick to laugh off the threatened boycott of the state's tourist industry. As one state senator put it: "We got oceans, white sand, orange juice and Anita Bryant, and that's enough...
...began gobbling up long putts in earnest on the back side, holding out for birdies on 12, 14, 16, and 17. On the 389-yard 12th, he needed only a sand wedge into the green after catching his drive flush. On the par-three 16th, Fitzgibbons sent his tee shot skittering just past the flagstick on the pocket handkerchief of a green and proceeded to roll in the comeback putt...