Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Egyptian patrols found their bodies a day or so later. Not far away were Rimm and Hauser, also dead. "The sun is horrible," Gunther had noted on another scrap of paper, while Gudrun's last snapshots showed her husband and Wanderscheck sprawled in the sand, waiting for death...
...decided to cut across the unmarked desert. The going was a lot slower than they expected, and the Volks began to falter. Suddenly they realized that what had begun as a search for ancient gods might turn into a grim Götterdämmerung. Noted Gunther Wanderscheck, 33, on a scrap of paper dated three days after they left Cairo: "Our condition is very bad. We have only eight liters [about two gallons] of water and five cans of mango juice." Then the little VW stalled, and eight miles farther on the Micro Bus bogged down in the sand...
Technology has a way of re-enacting poetry. West Germany is currently considering a network of Autobahnen im Dunkeln, or highways in the dark: huge subterranean pipelines that will carry industrial waste and scrap to the coast, dump them into the ocean and form new land. "Under green fields, under our feet," writes an awed British journalist, "the thick current of Germany's yesterday will creep endlessly down to the sea." The scheme is symbolic of contemporary Germany; for 20 years, its people have sought to eliminate the rubbish of their past and build anew...
...briefly onto old U.S. 1 for a glimpse of roadside blight-junkyards, billboards and used-car lots. Whitton commended owners of automobile junkyards, which he called "disassembling yards," who have tried to screen the rusting hulks from passing motorists; the Department of Commerce counts 17,760 auto graveyards and scrap heaps lining the country's main roads...
Tied up alongside a pier on the Wilmington river front, the 728-ft. battle ship U.S.S. North Carolina by day looks like just another battleship saved from the scrap heap to serve as a war memorial. But at night she comes alive...