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...that after the races, "Benjy and I are perfecting our helicopter turns off cornices. There are these great cornices out here. You take off and do 360 or so degrees in the air and you land about 30 feet below the cornice. Ben made a perfect one down a slope called Climax at Mammoth on Sunday...
SAMOTLOR, beneath the 100-sq.-mi. Lake Samotlor, is believed to be the world's richest single oil deposit, comparable in potential to the entire Alaskan North Slope. When fully developed, it will have more than 3,000 producing wells. Despite cold so extreme that steel becomes brittle and brake fluids freeze, Soviet drilling and construction crews are expanding production at a rate previously achieved only in Libya...
...Slope Conditions Good...
...Thompson submachine guns and AK-47s. Suddenly, when he spotted the tiny H-shaped landing pad, he put the chopper into a tight sinking spiral and landed in the barrio. The supplies were unloaded and the colonel, accompanied by two wary troopers, climbed quickly out and up the slope to greet the company commander...
...pocket. But then, recalled Roberto Canessa, a 19-year-old medical student, "I looked out as we turned and saw a mountain only a few feet away." Without warning, the plane hit a peak and slid like a toboggan for half a mile down an 80° slope. When the plane finally stopped in a huge snowdrift at 11,900 feet above sea level, 18 people were dead or dying. "One of the pilots was alive," said Canessa, "but he was pleading for a revolver to kill himself...