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...Best evidence now is that Richard III, though puny and below average height (whereas eldest brother Edward IV was a muscular giant of 6 ft. 4 in.), was not visibly deformed. "Crouch-back" probably referred to a shoulder slope induced by vigorous practice which overdeveloped the muscles of his sword arm. Shakespeare, truckling to the Tudor court, made Plantagenet Richard a monster...
...Corbu" began "sniffing out the site," as he puts it, in 1953. He chose a slope to back his monastery against, propped on pillars. Then he listened and took notes while the late Dominican patron of the arts, Pere Couturier, explained the and problems of the Dominican discipline ("Here we walk in double file. Here we prostrate ourselves"). For three years Corbusier and his associates worked over the plans. The result is a rugged interplay of concrete masses and angles-a top example of the architectural style that is sometimes referred to as "the new brutalism...
...Explorer Dwight Eisenhower finally reached the windswept Summit, he saw to his dismay that the snow had been badly trampled, and disappearing down the snowy slope trundled a short, squat figure, the broad backsides, the large roll of fat clearly discernible between the ears. It was the Abdominal Snowman! Thus ended another episode in the series, "Explorer Eisenhower's Gullible Travels...
...across the Pacific. Traveling as fast as 520 m.p.h. but separated as much as 100 miles from crest to crest, the waves met incoming ships so gently that they merely slowed them down. But when the waves hit land, they caused an unruly violence that varied according to the slope of a shore, the shelter of a peninsula or the degree of warning...
Walled In. Early the next morning, Link Luckett returned to pick up another injured climber, but this time he became confused by darting light and shadow, landed on a steep slope. He took off again, landed on a cornice 200 ft. from the camp, but the snow was too soft. Luckett raised off again, plucked Climber Peter Schoening off the snow, deposited him into Don Sheldon's waiting plane below. In all, Luckett made five landings on the upper slope. "You just don't make trips like that for money," he said later. "It was hairy." By week...