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...cave in the world, required techniques more organized and rigorous than Collins' lone adventuring. By the 1950s, when Brucker and Watson began caving, it was necessary to survey, with chain and compass, every foot of the miles of new cave then being discovered. Some of the finds were spacious passages and great, vaulted limestone halls, but far more often the explorers tried to keep their nerve intact and their carbide lamps lit while jammed into mud-choked fistulas less than a foot high. The authors' implied comparison of Kentucky caving with the climbing of Everest is a mild...
...true reflection of his sensibility. The flat, quiet voice, the understated grace of his movements, the sweet almost boyish manner, contrasting so curiously with the violent deeds he performs, have a remarkable way of gaining sympathetic interest not so much through command as through insinuation. In a western, where spacious landscapes and historical distance seem to soften the impact of his brutal methods of problem solving, Eastwood is not simply a symbol of the modern taste for random and gratuitous bloodletting in films. Rather, he reminds us of a traditional American style of screen heroism-a moral man slow...
...meter board and its own elevator; the Velodrome, a 7,200-seat banked (48° on the curves) oval for cycling races; Desmarteau Center, a 4,500-seat basketball arena; the Robillard Center, a 3,600-seat general sports area with a pool and a handball court; a spacious equestrian area complete with jump course; and a sailing center with five precast concrete piers and enough facilities to handle the expected 145 entries...
Despite an abortive coup last year, Mobutu remains unchallenged in his control over both the Popular Movement of the Revolution (MPR), Zaïre's only legal political party, and the country. In a rare interview, Mobutu spoke with TIME Correspondent William McWhirter at his spacious villa, which looks out over the rapids of the Zaïre River and across to the border of Brazzaville. "For all his dashing flamboyance in public," reported McWhirter, "Mobutu was surprisingly low-keyed and serious. He was nevertheless lively, outspoken and outwardly untroubled about the future of his country and the continent...
Illustrious Prisoners. Manhattan's Other Island-it might be called the Little Apple-was planned as a green and spacious community that would combine insular serenity, small-town security and Manhattan-on-the-rock sophistication. Its appeal is mostly to young families who might otherwise head for the suburbs. Cars are banned from its winding Main Street (though electric minibuses run around the clock). Dogs are verboten. Old trees have been spared, eyesores torn down, and landmark buildings preserved-including the oldest wooden farmhouse in New York County, an octagonal tower that drew Charles Dickens' admiration, a lighthouse...