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Escape in the Night. He fired his pistol once in the direction of the shooting, then slipped off his shoes and scrambled up a steep, rocky cliff out of the line of fire...
There is one steep climb on the way to Harlan, Ky. that the bus can make only by backing uphill, and often the Blue Goose runs out of gas when the gauge reads full and the players have to push her into the next town...
Landslides are nothing new for the Panama Canal. Because early geologists designed banks that were too steep, mudflows began even while the canal was being dug. Before stability was reached, more than 250 acres of the adjacent slopes, complete with trees and scenery, slid greasily into the cut. More slides closed the canal briefly in the year it opened. 1914, and again in 1915 and 1932. But Contractor's Hill, a vast boulder in the ooze, stood like Gibraltar...
Second Nile. Ley does not bother with dams across ordinary rivers; he picks the Congo, .which drains much of Africa's rain forest through a steep-sided valley near its mouth. A dam at this point, says Ley, would form a lake big enough to cover California, Nevada and Oregon. The water would flow northward to fill an even bigger lake (the Chad Sea) in the Sahara, and eventually drain into the Mediterranean. The lakes would presumably improve the climate of much of Africa, and boats would reach the continent's heart through the "second Nile...
When Gollwitzer left the labor camp for the Krasnogorsk indoctrination center, he set out to steep himself in the Marxists' explanation for this Russian misery. The theoreticians there seemed convinced that their system, with all its temporary drawbacks, would ultimately produce a materialist heaven on earth-Theologian Gollwitzer called it a "secularized Christian eschatology." Accordingly, they reasoned themselves into a 1984-type "dream world." Russian professors argued that the prisoners must see things "dialectically." For instance, if the Kremlin planned to erect a magnificent city street on a row of squalid huts, it was as good as there already...