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...wonderful place to get away from it all," said Lady Bird Johnson. How she knew was a mystery. Accompanied by a 24-raft flotilla of 60 newsmen, her own twelve-man entourage, and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, she floated (with paddle) down eleven miles of the shallow Rio Grande in Texas' Big Bend National Park to dramatize her beautify-and see-the-U.S.A. campaigns. Everything came off more or less swimmingly as the ladybird watchers went over the side in search of closeups or simply fell off, like the stretch-pantsed newswoman who jammed her parasol...
...such anthropological anomalies may never be solved, Flame picks Africa's Auen nomads, caught in the fierce Kalahari desert between the Boers of South Africa and the northerly Bantus. When game is scarce, Gaisseau relates, they often spare their young the agony of starvation by smothering them in shallow, sandy graves. They are among the most stubbornly primitive people on earth, and their harsh mercy has already marked them for extinction: at the time of filming, only 28 members of the tribe were living...
...whole, however, Too Far w Walk earns only a B -as good fiction; the Faustian bit may be clever, but it is too shallow to take seriously. It is Mersey's deft portrayal of the collegiate scene that makes Too Far worth walking for. Parents who have survived the ordeal of pushing a son or two through college will certainly learn a thing or two. Especially if, like Sophomore Fist's father, they have ever had that choked-up feeling in communicating, and have ended up saying hopelessly: "Why don't you get your hair...
...probably the only living witness to what happened when Nimitz ran the destroyer Decatur aground in 1908. The ship was conducting torpedo practice; I was torpedo officer; Nimitz, commanding officer, was on the bridge. We fired at a target moored in shallow water near the beach, which made recovering torpedoes easier. Then the ship headed toward a dinghy stationed to secure the spent torpedo. We proceeded cautiously, taking soundings. Since the bottom was known to be soft, there could be little damage to the ship if she did touch; Nimitz might have considered he was taking a calculated risk. When...
...skipper on the bridge may wonder where his bow is and what it is doing. Few harbors can handle the ships, although this matters little for tankers, since they can stand offshore while loading and unloading by pipeline. The Suez Canal is too small for the supertankers, and the shallow North Sea is not safe for ships drawing more than 56 feet, which is to say those larger than 200,000 tons. Insurance companies are fretful about "concentration of risk...