Word: slopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Air Force officers have worried at the lack of adequate perimeter defense at the base. Especially vulnerable was the northern edge of the field, where for some reason no one ever thought to clear the bush and trees that offer concealment along a wide gentle slope not far from the barracks where U.S. troops at the base are quartered...
Peralta turned to the country's businessmen, asked them what to do, and took their advice. He promoted new trade agreements with his neighbors, offered low-cost credit to farmers, expanded cotton production on Guatemala's rich Pacific slope. "That land is so rich in nitrogen," says one cotton grower, "that you could sack it and sell it for fertilizer." This year's income from Guatemala's major crops-coffee, cotton and bananas-should reach $134 million, 35% more than...
...crowd was thick at the triangular Dealey Plaza, on the western end of downtown Dallas. There the motorcade slowed down to turn right into Houston Street for one block; then it turned left onto Elm?and, traveling at precisely 11.2 m.p.h., headed down a slight slope past the seven-story, orange brick headquarters of the Texas School Book Depository Co., a private firm that distributes textbooks. Inside the Lincoln, Mrs. Connally turned and smiled: "Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you." Replied Kennedy, smiling: "That is very obvious...
Died. Lord Raglan, 79, British author and anthropologist, great-grandson of the man who ordered the charge of the Light Brigade and invented the slope-shouldered Raglan sleeve, himself a salty-tongued gadfly who in the course of nine lively volumes (Myth and Drama, How Came Civilization?) suggested, among other things, that Shakespeare was the least literate member of a sixman playwriting syndicate; of a heart attack; in Monmouthshire, England...
Perched on a high, verdant ridge at Saint Paul de Vence above Nice, the museum is the elegantly terraced product of José Luis Sert, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Its ochre fieldstone walls blend into the slope; atop the roof, flying scoops shaped like quarter-cylinders trap the harsh Mediterranean light, diffuse it through milky glass, and bounce it off vaults inside to soften it further. Six galleries are devoted respectively to Bonnard, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Chagall, Braque and Miró; the paintings are from Maeght's collection or gifts from the artists...