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Laichau had been an important base for rallying the friendly Thai tribesmen in the northwestern wilds, but the French commanders had compelling tactical reasons for giving it up. It was supplied and manned only by air, yet it has a small, poor airstrip, with steep mountain cliffs on both sides. If the Reds brought mortars to the high ground above the airstrip, they could take it under devastating fire...
...usual game (middle 80s), and shooting in the 90s. Then the President settled down in "the Eisenhower Cabin," as the Augusta National Golf Club officially calls the $75,000, seven-room house it built for Ike. The "cabin," styled with a white-columned front porch and a steep slate roof with dormer windows, perches on a ridge by a pine grove between the clubhouse and the row of smaller cabins used by other members. Among the interior decorations: a set of 18 photographs showing previous homes occupied by the Dwight Eisenhowers; a painting by Ike of grandson David, his face...
...Pictures of a Unitarian church built by Wright at Madison, Wis. in 1949-50. Instead of a steeple, it has a steep, triangular roof shaped rather like hands folded in prayer. The triangle, Wright believes, is "the symbol of aspiration." ¶Pictures of a house Wright built in Phoenix last year for one of his sons. Made of concrete blocks, it looks like a snail shell somewhat flattened and supported on stilts. Says Wright: "It is in a citrus-orchard district and the orange trees make the lawn for the house. The slowly rising ramp reveals the surrounding mountains...
...will come, my bird, Bonita? Come! For I, by steep and stone, Have built such nest for you, Juanita, As not eagle bird hath known...
...went over, Thomson leaped. He landed 50 feet below the lip of the road and watched the car with Meuler in it go somersaulting end over end down a steep, brushy, 100-yard slope. Below that, sheer cliffs fell away to the sea. But just before the car cleared the edge, Meuler was flung out. He was horribly hurt-one leg, a hip and his back were broken, his face was torn and his scalp split-but he rose, fell, rose again. Thomson scrambled downhill toward him and put a tourniquet on his bleeding leg. He took off his pants...