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...Riviera he went shopping in Saint-Paul-de-Vence's steep, stony streets, tried his hand at lawn bowling, and like Yves Montand and Simone Signoret-wined and dined at the Colombe d'Or. Then it was on to Paris for a round of wreath-layings, ceremonials, and the more important business of lunching and chatting with De Gaulle, who knew just how to warm the heart of his Eastern neighbor...
...noted that the 727 is built to get in and out of airports quickly, therefore has steep climb and descent rates. In the Cincinnati crash, the pilot simply descended too fast and probably did not pay enough attention to his altimeter. The CAB had already made a similar finding in a United Air Lines crash in Salt Lake City. There have been no rulings yet on the two other 727 crashes, one outside Tokyo and the other near Chicago...
...trails. During July's Operation Hastings, the Marines established a reconnaissance post atop the Rock, and a lone sniper fed by airdrops of C rations controlled the area. Now it is a Marine battalion command post, under almost steady siege. Across from the Rock rears the Razorback-a steep ridge whose sides are pocked with caves dug by the Japanese in World War II, but now occupied by North Vietnamese. Several hundred yards below the Rock, the Reds have dug "spider holes" from which they lob mortar fire and mount ambushes. Two miles to the south stands Hill...
...built as air right structures over highways or rivers or as bridges across canyons. And such building can and should be done without marring the natural beauty of Pittsburgh's rivers, hills, and valleys. Structures which span valleys can also bring together neighborhoods long isolated by topography. Steep hills need not be barriers either to construction or to access routes. Hills and valleys can become architectural assets in planning exciting urban centers for Pittsburgh
...flyers clowned by the Nazis during World War II. Rather, it is the harshness of the country itself. An escapee from a Southeast Asian prison camp must burrow through rotting rain forests, fight off swarms of bugs, swim mighty, mud-thick rivers that cut between the region's steep mountains, and find a way to signal the U.S. rescue planes that orbit high over the jungle. Last week the most recent escapee told a harrowing tale of his trudge back to freedom...