Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger showed a genuine interest in archaeological and religious sites. In Damascus, she visited the ancient Umayyad mosque and the Turkish baths. There she startled her conservative Muslim guide by asking whether men and women had ever bathed there together. The horrified guide said, "Oh, no, no!" He then added that women had been allowed to bathe but separately. In Israel, she toured the fortress at Masada where Jewish zealots made a suicidal last stand against the Roman Legion in A.D. 73. Later she helicoptered to the ruins of Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee. Near the site, she chatted...
...hybrid airships as bulk cargo transporters during hearings this summer. All American Engineering already foresees such chores for its Aerocranes as lifting logs out of remote timberland, unloading container ships that are too large to come into port, and delivering fully prefabricated houses directly from factory to home site...
Ferry Trips. The site of these colonies would most likely be one or more of the five moving locations in space (first identified by the 18th century Italian-French mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange) where the gravitational and centrifugal forces of the earth-moon system cancel each other out.* Any object placed at these points would remain there rather than fall toward the earth or moon. For his first stations, O'Neill proposes two 1,000-yard-long minicylinders for only 10,000 people, which would require the transport and assembly in space of some 10,000 tons of material...
...days*-for time adrift following a shipwreck. Though each lost about 40 pounds, suffered vitamin deficiencies and the raft-man's excruciating equivalent of bed sores, their condition was far from critical when they were picked up by a Korean fishing boat 1,500 miles from the site of the sinking. The Baileys-he, a 42-year-old printer's clerk and she, a 33-year-old tax officer-were not particularly well equipped. Before Auralyn sank, they salvaged 33 cans of food, ranging from steak-and-kidney-pie filling to treacle, along with a variety of plastic...
Fresco Feeling. Though it is a small fair by New York or Montreal standards, Spokane's Expo has a number of imaginatively designed pavilions. The $11.5 million U.S. pavilion dominates the site. Its theme: "Earth does not be long to man; man belongs to the earth." Umbrellaed by a translucent vinyl canopy that would cover nearly two football fields but does not touch the ground, the pavilion inside has an al fresco feeling and a cinema with the largest screen in the world (nine stories wide, six stories high). It features a film on U.S. ecology that opens with...