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...dirt, men!" one officer yelled-to the relief of Pfc. Willie Wilkins from Akron, who proceeded to lie face down in the sand. "These people can be gung-ho," he muttered, "but I'm just going to play the game. I can give you my opinion of this entire operation in two words...
...weekend golfers (the number was chosen "for patriotic reasons") called "the Golfing Friends of the President." They spent $75,000-in cash and donated materials-for the links, and published a brochure that uses poetry to describe the course's splendors. It has one artificial water hazard, two sand traps, and springhole cups that pop a ball out after it is sunk...
Patience is the prophet's greatest ally. In 1900, three years before the Wright brothers puttered over the sand at Kitty Hawk, Wells foretold the modern air armada in The Shape of Things to Come. On the eve of World War I, after reading a book about radium, he wrote The World Set Free, a novel that predicted the atomic bomb with such imaginative precision that the late physicist Leo Szilard acknowledged that the book had inspired the building of his own apparatus for starting chain reactions...
...Norm brought all that contemporary political stuff in. I mean, we all know the story's happening in Israel. So it's really a mind blower to see those Phantom jets roaring up in the sky, and Judas coming up over a sand dune between a couple of tanks. That's heavyweight...
Water wells are miles apart. Under the blistering sun, the temperature of the sand often reaches 180° F. Despite these forbidding conditions, foreigners have lately been scurrying in and out of the West African republic of Mauritania, at the western end of the Sahara -hiring the few available trucks, renting plots of land and even booking rooms in an old French Foreign Legion post. Told that the strangers are there to watch the moon black out the sun, some believers in the oasis town of Chinguetti-the seventh holiest city of Islam-are incredulous. "How can you tell...