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...gave each man a number and a map. One by one, as the numbers were called, each man trotted off by himself, whipped out a small compass, lined up his map and raced into the tangled underbrush. For the next three hours, they pounded across rough, trackless terrain, climbed steep hills, forded icy streams, slogged through black swamps. Every couple of miles they passed through carefully spotted check points to prove that they were sticking to a prearranged course. If they read the maps well enough, were good enough woodsmen, and if their legs and lungs held up, they eventually...
...populace was the answer of President Paul Magloire to an impromptu strike by the drivers of the share-the-ride station wagons, used in Haiti as buses and taxis combined. The drivers were protesting against a government measure that seemed to thrust at their very livelihood: a steep boost in the police fines they regularly expect and richly deserve. Few had bothered actually to read the new scale of fines, but according to the telejiol, Haiti's famed word-of-mouth communications network, merely sassing a cop could cost $24 instead of the traditional $1. Worse, they heard that...
...readers will accept-or read-all of Toynbee; many will reject a great deal. But if the West, clinging to its steep cliff, wants a heartening message, one can be found in this "post-Christian" English historian. It is in the other, larger meaning of Amplexus expecta-that the West must cling to God, to a life that is always dangerous, and to man's constant, painful duty to choose between good and evil...
...research ship Vema steamed back into New York Harbor last week with new information about the "rivers" that flow on the bottom of the ocean. About 600 miles east of Philadelphia, where the Atlantic is 17,000 ft. deep, the Vema's sensitive sounding apparatus found a steep-walled canyon two or three miles wide and about 180 ft. deep. The scientists followed it for 100 miles and they have reason to believe that it may run for 500 miles across the bottom of the ocean...
this was so steep as to have artificial stairs, composed...